Web Quest Unit 1 Words

1. missionary: A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to carry on ministries of the word,
2. viceroy: is a royal official who runs a country or province in the name of and as representative of the monarch. ...
3. Northwest Passage: is a sea route through the, artic ocean along the northern coast of north America via waterways
4. charter:
5. joint stock company: is a type of business entity: it is a type of corporation or parthership involving two or more legal persons.
6. Powhatan: is the name of a Virginia Indian tribe. It is also the name of a powerful confederacy
7. House of Burgess: was empowered to enact legislation for the colony, but its actions were subject to veto by the governor
8. Royal Colony: a colony governed directly by a king or queen in other countries.
9. Proprietary Colony: is a colony in which one or more private land owners retain rights that are normally the privilege of the state, and in all cases
10. Puritan:were a group of people who grew discontent in the Church of England and worked towards religious, moral and societal reforms
11. Separatist:is the advocacy of a state of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group
12. Pilgrim:were English Separatists. In the first years of the 17th century, small numbers of English Puritans broke away from the church of englang.
13. Mayflower Compact:was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists, later together known to history as the pilgrims.
14. John Winthrop: 12 January 1587/8– 26 March 1649 obtained a royal charter, along with other wealthy Puritans, from King Charles for the Massachusetts Bay
15. Pequot War: was an armed conflict in 1634-1638 between an alliance of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies, with Native American allies
16. King Phillip’s War:In the 55-year span between the arrival of the Mayflower and the outbreak of King Philip's War, the English had prospered, multiplied and expanded their
17. Bacon’s Rebellion:was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon, a wealthy planter. It was the first rebellion in the american
18. Pocahontas:was a Virginia Indian princess notable for having assisted colonial settlers at Jamestown in present-day Virginia
19. Walter Raleigh:
1554 Sir Walter Raleigh was born in Hayes Barton in Devonshire
Part of a leading Protestant family