Chapter 3 Section 1 & 2 Vocabulary

  • Representative Government

    Representative Government
    Government that Represents people & their rights .
  • Pilgrim

    Pilgrim
    A traveler who is on a journey to a Holy place .
  • Squanto

    Squanto
    He was the Native American who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in the New World .
  • John Winthrop

    John Winthrop
    He was a wealthy English Puritan lawyer
    and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts
  • Roger Williams

    Roger Williams
    an English Protestant theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state.
  • John Smith

    John Smith
    John Smith - English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631) ...
  • Toleration

    Toleration
    the practice of deliberately allowing or permitting a thing of which one disapproves
  • John Wheelright

    John Wheelright
    Puritan clergyman in England and America, and was most noted for being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Antinomian Controversy, and for subsequently establishing the town of Exeter, New Hampshire
  • Charter

    Charter
    A document form a government granting certain rights .
  • Anne Hutchinson

    Anne Hutchinson
    Puritan woman, spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and important participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638
  • Thomas Hooker

    Thomas Hooker
    prominent Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts
  • Town Meeting

    Town Meeting
    The Pruist form a town meeting
  • Metacom

    Metacom
    Metacomet was the second son of Massasoit