Chapter 3 The English Colonies Vocabulary

An official document that permitted colonists to settle on land claimed by their ruler:

• Charter

• Land deed
• Property title
• Settlement agreement

A system creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade:

• Socialism
• Barter System
• Mercantilism

• Feudalism

He trained the settlers of Jamestown to farm and work, saving the colony:

• Pocahontas
• William Bradford
• John Smith
• George Washington

These servants signed a contract to work for four to seven years for those who paid for their journey to America:

• Indentured servants
• Free laborers
• Slaves
• Apprentices

Laws made by colonial planters that were designed to control the lives of enslaved African Americans:

• Plantation regulations
• Slave codes
• Agricultural codes
• Labor laws

A separatist group that left England in the early 1600s to escape religious persecution. They settled in Plymouth:

• Pilgrims
• Anglicans
• Puritans
• Quakers

A group of people who wanted to purify the Church of England. They settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony:

• Puritans
• Quakers
• Anglicans
• Baptists

A Wampanoag who lived with the Pilgrims, teaching them how to plant corn, use fish to fertilize soil and how to trap wild animals:

• Squanto

  (Tisquantum)

• Tecumseh
• Pocahontas
• Massasoit

A legal contract in which the Pilgrim men agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good. One of the first attempts at self-government in the colonies:

• Colonial Charter
• Mayflower Compact
• New England Confederation
• Plymouth Agreement

He was granted a charter to start colony of Pennsylvania. A Quaker who wanted his colony to be a place where people could practice their religion freely:

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
• William Penn