Chapter 4 Vocabulary Review

This can be used to help you prepare for the Vocabulary Quiz.

The definition will appear first on each slide. Quiz yourself by trying to identify which

vocabulary word matches each definition. You may want to have a ‘word bank’ of the 15

vocabulary words to look at. When you click, the correct answer will appear.

Keep going until you get all 15 words correct!

Owners of a colony who control its government

proprietors

Protestant group made up of people who wanted to reform the

Church of England

Puritans

Political meeting at which people make decisions on

local issues; used primarily in New England

town meeting

Document written by the Pilgrims that established

general guidelines for self-government

Mayflower Compact

People who agreed to work from four to seven years without pay in exchange for passage to America

Indentured servants

Powerful allegiance of Algonquian Indians under the

leadership of Wahunsonacock

Powhatan Confederacy

System under which each colonist who paid his or her own way to Virginia received 50 acres

of land

Headright system

A religious group

sect

People who disagree with official religious or political opinions

dissenters

Members of a Puritan Separatist sect that left

England in the early 1600’s to settle in the Americas

Pilgrims

Group of people who developed their own churches

and cut all ties with the Church of England

Separatists

People who have left the country of their birth to live in

another country

immigrants

Virginia’s elected assembly

House of Burgesses

Mass movement of English men, women, and children out of England between 1630 and

1640

Great Migration

Sacred agreement

covenant