13 Colonies Set 1 Flashcards
Jamestown
Jamestown was the first success colony in the new world. Jamestown was established in April of 1607 when 144 settlers
Capt.John smith
The first years of Jamestown were very hard. Many people died from disease and starvation. Capt.Smith,leaders, told people who did not want to work,it they did not work to help out,they would get no food.
Powhatan Indians
Thousands of the Powhatan Indians lived in the area where the Jamestown settlers landed.At first they helped the colonist, but then,angry at how they were treated, they stopped supplying food to the settlers. This caused the “Starving Time”over one winter.
Pocahontas
Pocahontas was the daughter of the most powerful Powhatan chief. She married John Rolfe. This helped improve relations between the Powhatan Indians and the colonist.
Economy
People came to Jamestown to find riches like gold and silver. There was none. But the settlers finally found a way to make money. Many of them began growing a crop called “tobacco”, which was vey popular in England. They could sell it for money.
European religion
The Catholic Church and the Protestant belief were the two types of religion practiced in European at this time.
Separatists
These were Protestants who did not want to worship in the Catholic Church or change the Anglican Church, they wanted to set up their own church to worship at they chose
The pilgrims
This was a group of separatists who had been persecuted so badly in England that they decided to move to American. They sailed on the mayflower and ended up dropping anchor in cape pod. They went ashore at a place called Plymouth .
The mayflower compact
This was a document that all the pilgrims signed before they left the ship. It set up an organized, orderly Government. Each person promise to obey the laws passed “ for the general good of the colony”.
Squanto
A Native American helped the pilgrims survive by teaching them how to grow corn,beans and pumpkins and where to hunt and fish. The pilgrims might not have survived without his help.
Massachusetts
I’m 1630 John Winthrop was chosen to be the governor of the Massachusetts bay colony. He led about 900 men, women and children to Massachusetts where most settled in a place they called Boston.
Persecuted
To be mistreated for some reason. Many people left England to go the new world because they were being persecuted or their religious beliefs.
Great migration
During the 1630s, more than 15,000 puritans left England to go to Massachusetts. They were escaping from religious persecution and Economic hard times.
