chapter 3 vocabulary

  • proprietary colny

    proprietary colny

    a colony created by a grant orf land from a monarch to an individual or family
  • royal colony

    royal colony

    a colony controlled directly by the english king
  • charter

    official document that gives certian rights to an individual or a group
  • john smith

    was sent out from london to lead the colony
  • representative government

    the form of government in which voters elect peolpe to make laws
    for them
  • pilgrim

    a person who takes a religious journey
  • thomas hooker

    thomas hooker

    a minister, disagree with the puristan leader
  • john weelright

    john weelright

    forced to leave massachusttes
  • town meeting

    an assembly of towns
  • john winthrop

    john winthrop

    the puritans were led
  • toleration

    toleration

    recognition that other people have the right to different opinions
  • Roger Williams

    Roger Williams

    minister of a church in the townof salem
  • Anne Hutchinson

    Anne Hutchinson

    a boston woman that questioned some of the puritian teaching
  • squanto

    squanto

    brought the pilgrims seeds of native plants
  • nathaniel bacon

    nathaniel bacon

    became the leader of the frontier settlers
  • debtor

    debtor

    people who owe money
  • plantation

    plantation

    a large farm
  • pueblo

    pueblo

    civilian towns
  • boarderland

    meanings lands along a frontier
  • metacom

    metacom

    opponents of the enlish were led by metacom
  • backcountry

    backcountry

    was a fronteir region extening through several colonies from pennsyvania to georgia
  • willian penn

    willian penn

    one quaker leader
  • town meeting

    town meeting

    an assembly of townspoeple that decides local issues