Chapter 5 Vocabulary European Exploration and Colonization

French colony in North America, with a capital in Quebec.

• New Netherland

• New Spain

• New Amsterdam

• New France

First written constitution in America

• House of Burgesses

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

1620- The first agreement to self-government in America.

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Virginia House of Burgesses

Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people.

• Puritans

• William Penn

• Indentured Servants

• Quakers

First permanent English colony in North America, founded in Virginia.

• Plymouth

• St. Augustine

• Mayflower Compact

• Jamestown

Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years.

• New Netherland

• Mayflower Compact

• Puritans

• Indentured Servants

Well educated; outspoken person that was kicked out of Massachusetts Bay.

• William Penn

• John Winthrop

• Ann Hutchinson

• Lord Baltimore

Founder and governor of the Georgia colony.

• James Oglethorpe

• Roger Williams

• William Penn

• Lord Baltimore

A Quaker that founded Pennsylvania to establish a place where his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution.

• Lord Baltimore

• James Oglethorpe

• William Penn

• Ann Hutchinson

The second capital after the fire destroyed Jamestown.

• Atlanta, Georgia

• Williamsburg, Virginia

• Charleston, South Carolina

• Richmond, Virginia