Web Quest Unit 1 Words



1. Missionary- A person sent to a foreign country in order to convert others to their religion.

2. Viceroy- In colonial Spanish America, king-appointed official who governs a province, colony, or country.

3. Northwest Passage- an unknown passage in Canada

4. Samuel De Champlain- French navigator, sent to North America to explore and colonize territories.

5. Charter- A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company.

6. Joint stock company- A company run by a group of investors who share the company’s profits and losses

7. Powhatan- Leader of the Indian tribe

8. House of Burgess- Representative assembly of colonial Virginia formed in 1619

9. Royal Colony- English colony that was under direct control of the crown.

10. Proprietary Colony- English colony granted to an individual or group by the crown

11. Puritan- English Protestants who believed in strict religious discipline and the simplification of worship; settlers of the Massachusetts Bay colony.

12. Separatist- Groups who wished to separate from the Anglican Church to begin their own churches.

13. Pilgrim- English puritans who sought religious freedom and founded Plymouth Colony in 1620

14. Mayflower Compact- Framework for self-government of the Plymouth Colony signed on the ship the mayflower in 1620.

15. John Winthrop- He obtained a royal charter, along with other wealthy Puritans, from King Charles for the Massachusetts Bay company and led a group of English Puritans to the New World in 1630.He was elected the governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony the year before. Between 1639 and 1648, he was voted out of being governor and then re-elected about 12 times.

16. Pequot War -

17. King Phillip’s War

18. Bacon’s Rebellion

19. Pocahontas

20. Walter Raleigh

21. Indentured servant

22. Triangular trade

23. Magna Carta

24. English Bill of Rights

25. Habeas corpus

26. Salutary neglect

27. Mercantilism

28. Navigation Act

29. Enlightenment

30. Benjamin Franklin

31. George Washington

32. French Indian War

33. Pontiac’s Rebellion

34. Proclamation of 1763

35. Albany Plan of Union

36. Stamp Act

37. John Adams

38. Patrick Henry

39. Sons of Liberty

40. non-importation agreement

41. Boston Massacre

42. committee of correspondence

43. Boston Tea Party

44. Intolerable Acts

45. First Continental Congress

46. militia

47. Loyalist

48. Second Continental Congress

49. George Washington

50. Thomas Paine

51. Declaration of Independence

52. Thomas Jefferson

53. Natural Rights

54. Cornwallis

55. Yorktown

56. Saratoga