Chapter 3 - The English Colonies

Official document that allowed settlers to settle on lands claimed by their ruler:

A system of creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade:

He trained the settlers of Jamestown to cultivate and work, saving the colony:

These servants signed a contract to work for 4-7 years for those who paid for their trip to America:

Laws made by colonial planters that were designed to control the lives of enslaved African Americans:

A separatist group that left England in the early 1600s to escape religious persecution, settled in the Plymouth colony:

A group of people who wanted to purify the Church of England, settled in the Massachusetts Bay colony:

A legal contract in which pilgrim men agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good, one of the first attempts at self-government in the colonies:

Wampanoag who lived with the Pilgrims, teaching them how to plant corn, use fish to fertilize the soil, and how to trap wild animals:

He was granted a charter to start the colony of Pennsylvania, he wanted his colony to be a place of religious freedom: