Vocabulary: New England Colonies

These were a Separatist group that rejected the English Church. Many of these people fled to Holland, but eventually became dissatisfied with life there as well. They went to the Virginia Company (a company for funding colonies) for help, and the company arranged a place for the Pilgrims to land. They sailed off on the Mayflower, but when it came time to land, they made the mistake of sailing too far north of their destined area. They landed instead in a place called Plymouth, where they endured many hardships until Samoset, an English-speaking Native American, intorduced the PIlgrims to Squanto, who is renowned for saving the Pilgrims. These Pilgrims are famous for the initiation of the holiday Thanksgiving.

This was an agreement signed by men aboard the Mayflower. They vowed to obey laws for the colony's good. It established the idea of self-governance and majority rule.

Puritans belong to a religious group of that name. Back in about 1630, these people wished to "purify" the practices of the Church of England. Many of these left for America in a movement known as the Great Migration.

This refers to the era from about 1630 to 1640 during which a religious group known as the Purtians traveled in masses towards the Americas.

Thomas Hooker and his followers wrote and adopted these laws in 1639. These laws acted as a constitution. It extended voting rights to people who were not members of the church. meanwhile also limiting the governor's power. This expanded upon the idea of a representative government.

He was minister in Salem, Massachusetts, responsible for founding the American Baptist church. His opposition towards English conquering of native landsforced him to flee the colony. In 1636, he founded Rhode Island to guarantee religious freedom and a separation of church and state.

She was a woman in Massachusetts who believed that it did not require clergy to worship God and challenged church authority. She fled to RHode Island in 1638.

This war took place from 1675 to 1676 between the Puritans and the Wampanoag tribe, led by Metacom (known in English as King Philip). This war began over land ownership, religion, and the increasing number of English settlers. The Native Americans lost with about 3,000 deaths (including that of Metacom) and about 500 natives enslaved. The English lost about 600 settlers and 12 destroyed villages.