English colonist that wanted a more pure
church and came to the New England to escape
discrimination by the Anglican Church.
Though they wanted religious freedom
in England they did not allow it in their
own colonies
One of the English Separatists who
founded the colony of Plymouth in New
England in 1620.
Came over on the MAYFLOWER!!
A native
American who
spoke English
helped the
Pilgrims, his
name
SQUANTO
PLYMOUTH COLONY*
1620
Founded by the Pilgrims in 1620 to escape
religious discrimination in England. Became
the Massachusetts Colony.
PLYMOUTH
ROCK 
50%
Number of settlers
who died the 1st
winter
*
Crops (tobacco, cotton, indigo)
that are grown by the farmer for
sale and export, rather than for
the use of his family or the
local community.
Farming whose purpose is only to raise
enough food to feed the family
The soil in New England
was too rocky and the
winters too long for cash
crop farming
A member of the Society of Friends.
William PENN founded a great Quaker
settlement in and around Philadelphia.
Quaker theology differed widely from
that of the New England Puritans
making it available to all people.
"All servants imported and brought into the Country...who were not Christians in their
native Country...shall be accounted and be slaves. All Negro, mulatto and Indian
slaves within this dominion...shall be held to be real estate. If any slave resist his
master...correcting such slave, and shall happen to be killed in such correction...the
master shall be free of all punishment...as if such accident never happened."
*
Laws passed in the colonies to control
slaves.
Trading networks in
which goods and
slaves moved among
England, the
American Colonies
and Africa.
MERCANTILISM*
The plan to make money for
Europe, by buying RAW
MATERIALS from the
colonies, making them
into something in
factories, and selling it
back to the colonies at a
profit
Colonies cut
trees &
sell it
to Europe
Europe makes
lumber into
furniture & sells
it back to Colonies
And makes $$$
COLUMBIAN
EXCHANGE*
The transfer of plants,
animals & DISEASE
from Europe to the
Americas, and the
Americas to Europe,
due to exploration and
colonization
American Indian princess, she saved the life of
John Smith when he was captured and sentenced
to death by the Powhatan. She was later taken
prisoner by the English, converted to Christianity,
and married John Rolfe.
JAMESTOWN* 1607
The 1st permanent English settlement in the
New World. Became the colony of Virginia.
Settled to find GOLD, but survived by
growing tobacco.
Pocahontas helped save the English,
married John Rolfe, and moved to
England where she died of disease
*
1st government document written in the New World.
Written by the pilgrims on the Mayflower, it
established laws, leadership and order for the
colony
CHARTER*
King James of England
(see the name) granted
Virginia its charter
A Royal
document by a
European king
granting people
the right to start
a colony
A large farm that specialized in growing cash
crops. Most colonial plantations used slave labor
to do the hard work.
A colonist who received free passage to
North America in exchange for working
without pay for a certain number of
years.
Off the coast of North Carolina. It was
the first English Colony in the New
World, in what was then called Virginia.
There were two major groups of settlers
who attempted to establish a permanent
settlement at Roanoke Island, and each
FAILED.
One who keeps watch over and directs the
work of others, especially laborers.
MIDDLE PASSAGE*
10-20%
DIED
The BRUTAL trip endured by African
slaves between Africa and the American
colonies.
The slaves were
branded with hot
irons and restrained
with shackles. Their
"living quarters" was
often a deck within
the ship that had
less than five feet of
headroom -- and
throughout a large
portion of the deck,
sleeping shelves cut
this limited amount
of headroom in half