1. The Puritan missionaries had the responsibility of converting Native Americans into Christianity.
2. Viceroys were appointed from the Spanish government to control the colonist province.
3. The colonist took the Northwest Passage as a route through the Artic into North America.
4. Samuel De Champlain came from France to discover the city of Quebec in Canada.
5. For the colonist to leave England and start their own religious freedom they had to wait for a charter from the King to leave England.
6. The Virginia Company was the first joint stock company ever recognized.
7. Powhatan and his Indian tribe fought against the colonist to salvage their land and crops.
8. The House of Burgesses was Virginia’s legislative body.
9. England started many Royal Colonies.
10. The King granted proprietary colony to the colonist and private companies.
11. The puritans came from England in seeking of religious freedom.
12. The puritans were separatist because they did not like laws of the government.
13. The pilgrim was another name for the Puritans that came from England.
14. The Pilgrims of the colony set up their government called the Mayflower Compact which was the name of the ship the came from England.
15. John Winthrop of England ended up becoming the leader of the Puritan colony.
16. War broke out between the Indians and the Colonies called The Pequot War where they fought over the Massachusetts Bay.
17. The rebellion between the inhabitants of New England and the Indians broke out into called King Phillip’s War.
18. Bacon’s rebellion was the reason why so many of the Indians died and their land was stolen.
19. Pocahontas was a Disney character and she married John Smith!
Thursday, January 14, 2010
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