USI.5 Colonial America Vocabulary

Massachusetts

• When someone owns another person when someone is forced to work and is not paid

• When someone owns another person when someone is forced to work and is not paid

• Settled by the Quakers who wanted the freedom to practice their faith without being interrupted

• Settled by the Puritans to avoid religious persecution

Plymouth

• Settled by Separatists from the Church of England who wanted to avoid religious persecution

• Focus on a specific aspect of a larger topic

• Settled by the Quakers who wanted the freedom to practice their faith without being interrupted

• Someone who works without pay in a contract for a certain length of time

Pennsylvania

• Settled by Separatists from the Church of England who wanted to avoid religious persecution

• Established as an economic venture

• The first permanent English settlement in North America (1607)

• Settled by the Quakers who wanted the freedom to practice their faith without being interrupted

Economic or Religious?

PLYMOUTH

• Economic

• Religious

Economic or Religious?

GEORGIA

• Economic

• Religious

Economic or Religious?

ROANOKE ISLAND

• Economic

• Religious

Economic or Religious?

JAMESTOWN

• Economic

• Religious

Economic or Religious?

MASSACHUSETTS

• Economic

• Religious

Economic or Religious?

PENNSYLVANIA

• Economic

• Religious

Permanent

• Someone who owes a debt

• The weather found in a certain place over a long time

• Lasting or intended to last for a very long time

• A worker in a skilled trade