History colonization

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Pocahontas

Daughter of chief Powhatan, birth name was matowaka

John Rolfe

Married Pocahontas

Separatists

People who wanted to leave and set up their own churches, considered themselves as pilgrims

Puritans

People who wanted to change the Angelican church

Mayflower compact

Compact pledges their loyalty to England and declared a civil body politic

Great Migration

1630s, 15,000 people flew from England

Benjamin franklin

Came up with the Albany plan of union

Middle colonies

New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New York

Indentured servants

Agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time

Act of toleration

Let protestants and Catholics worship freely

Cash crops

Sugar, tobacco, rice and cotton were sent off to Europe

Iroquois confederacy

Group of tribes that teamed up when the first Europeans showed up

Seven years war

A war that lasted 9 years of French and Indians

Pontiac

Ottawa chief

City of brotherly love

Philadelphia (where pll takes place)

Mason Dixon line

A line on the map

Tenant farmers

Settlers paid their lord and annual rent then worked for him for a fixed number of days

Proclamation line of 1763

King George the third declared that colonists couldn't expand west of the application mounatisn