Colonial America (1607-1650)

Question 1

Puritans

Answer 1

group of religious dissidents who came to the New World so they would have a location to establish a “purer” church than the one that existed in England

Question 2

Separatists

Answer 2

religious group that opposed the Church of England; this group first went to Holland, and then some went on to the Americas

Question 3

indentured servants

Answer 3

individuals who exchanged compulsory service for free passage to the American colonies

Question 4

Huguenot

Answer 4

French Protestants who believed in Calvininsim by the 1630s. Some ended up settling in America but the French believed they would disrupt the colonies

Question 5

Jesuit

Answer 5

Missionaries who were in Flordia, New Mexico, and Paraguay within the French territories of America. They organized with order and military precision.

Question 6

Franciscan

Answer 6

missionaries who established settlements in the Southwestern US in the late 1500s; at their missions, Christian conversion was encouraged, however, Natives were also used as slaves. Rebellions against the missions began in 1598.

Question 7

London Company

Answer 7

In 1603, King James I gave the London Company a charter to settle Virginia. In April 1607, the first settlers arrived at Jamestown.