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Thomas Hooker. ... Thomas Hooker (July 5, 1586 – July 7, 1647) was a prominent Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and an advocate of universal Christian suffrage.

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noun. a journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: a pilgrimage to Lourdes.

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plural separatists. Learner's definition of SEPARATIST. : a member of a group of people who want to form a new country, religion, etc., that is separate from the one they are in now. An advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction" Similar Words: separationist, breakaway, fissiparous.

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Mercantilism, also called "commercialism,” is a system in which a country attempts to amass wealth through trade with other countries, exporting more than it imports and increasing stores of gold and precious metals.

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Roger Williams (1603?-1683) was a religious dissenter and the founder of Rhode Island (1636). During his fifty years in New England, Williams was a staunch advocate of religious toleration and separation of church and state.

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Mayflower Compact. An agreement reached by the Pilgrims on the ship the Mayflower in 1620, just before they landed at Plymouth Rock. The Mayflower Compact bound them to live in a civil society according to their own laws.

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The last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland; in 1664 he was forced to surrender the colony to England (1592-1672) Synonyms: Petrus Stuyvesant, Stuyvesant Example of: administrator, executive. someone who manages a government agency or department.

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John Rolfe was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Confederacy.

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The Massachusetts Bay Company was a joint stock trading company chartered by the English crown in 1629 to colonize a vast area in New England extending from 3 mi (4.8 km) miles north of the Merrimack River to 3 mi miles south of the Charles River.

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A joint-stock company is a business owned by people called shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in proportion to the number of their shares(certificates of ownership). ... This means the shareholders are only liable for the company's debts to the value of the money they invested in the company.

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Kids Encyclopedia Facts. Hutchinson on trial. Anne Hutchinson (baptized July 20, 1591 - August or September 1643), was a religious dissenter in Puritan New England. She was the defendant in the most famous of the trials intended to suppress religious dissent in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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The Dutch West India Company (Dutch: West-Indische Compagnie or WIC) was ancompany of Dutch merchants. ... The area where the company could operate consisted of West Africa (the area between the Tropic of Cancer and Cape of Good Hope) and the Americas, which included the Pacific Ocean and the eastern part of New Guinea.

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The Virginia Company was a joint stock company that was approved by King James I to create new settlements in the colony of Virginia. A joint stock company is a business organization with which investors pooled money in order to purchase stock in a company.

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commodity A commodity is any useful or valuable thing, especially something that is bought and sold.

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commodity A commodity is any useful or valuable thing, especially something that is bought and sold.

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produced regularly or in large quantities staple crops such as wheat and rice.

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a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

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A member of one of the Christian churches that separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century. Protestant. Kids Definition of Protestant (Entry 2 of 2)

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The Church of England has been the official church in England for about 450 years.

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The Atlantic slave trade was the selling of African people as slaves by Europeans that happened in and around the Atlantic Ocean. It lasted from the 15th century to the 19th century. ... Some were sold into slavery as punishment or to pay a debt, usually by other Africans.

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(in Spanish-speaking parts of the US) a cowboy; a cattle driver

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a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.

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the action of buying and selling goods and services.

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the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.

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Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia.Indentured servants were men and women who signed a contract (also known as an indenture or a covenant) by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter

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a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.

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the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

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a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.

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a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.

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Kids Definition of quadrant. 1 : one-fourth of a circle. 2 : any of the four parts into which something is divided by two imaginary or real lines that intersect each other at right angles.

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The word patron comes from the Latin pater or patr- meaning "father." Think of how a father is supposed to financially support his kids. A patron of the arts is someone who shows his appreciation or support for the arts by donating money to arts organizations.

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Random Word. linguistic means consisting of or related to language; "linguistic behavior"; "a linguistic atlas"; "lingual diversity"; of or relating to the scientific study of language;... more. Ford words starting with: A.

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mutinies. definition: open disobeying or fighting against the leaders in charge; open rebellion against lawful authority. synonyms: rebellion, uprising similar words: revolt.

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Definition of lateen. (Entry 1 of 2) : being or relating to a rig used especially on the north coast of Africa and characterized by a triangular sail extended by a long spar slung to a low mast. lateen.

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Definition of expedition. 1a : a journey or excursion undertaken for a specific purpose.

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A conquistador is a person who is out to conquer new territory. A conquistador was the name given to the Fifteenth-to-Seventeenth century Spanish and Portugese soldiers who conquered much of the world, most famously the Central and Southern Americas.

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A conquistador is a person who is out to conquer new territory. A conquistador was the name given to the Fifteenth-to-Seventeenth century Spanish and Portugese soldiers who conquered much of the world, most famously the Central and Southern Americas.

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Kids Definition of compass. 1 : a device having a magnetic needle that indicates direction on the earth's surface by pointing toward the north. 

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Kids Definition of compass. 1 : a device having a magnetic needle that indicates direction on the earth's surface by pointing toward the north. 

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circumnavigation transitive verb. : to go completely around especially by water circumnavigate the earth also : to go around instead of through : bypass circumnavigate a congested area.

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circumnavigation transitive verb. : to go completely around especially by water circumnavigate the earth also : to go around instead of through : bypass circumnavigate a congested area.

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caravel Definition of caravel. : any of several sailing ships specifically : a small 15th and 16th century ship that has broad bows, high narrow poop, and usually three masts with lateen or both square and lateen sails.

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caravel Definition of caravel. : any of several sailing ships specifically : a small 15th and 16th century ship that has broad bows, high narrow poop, and usually three masts with lateen or both square and lateen sails.

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Definition of astrolabe. : a compact instrument used to observe and calculate the position of celestial bodies before the invention of the sextant.

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A portable conical tent made of skins, cloth, or canvas on a frame of poles, used by American Indians of the Plains and Great Lakes regions.

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A natural object or animal believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and adopted by it as an emblem.

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1. an American Indian settlement of the southwestern US, especially one consisting of multistoried adobe houses built by the Pueblo people.

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A natural resource is something that is found innature and can be used by people. Earth's natural resources include light, air, water, plants, animals, soil, stone, minerals, and fossil fuels.

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The Iroquois longhouse were built to house 20 or more families.

The Iroquois Indian tribe was actually a confederacy of six Native American nations.

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a chamber, built wholly or partly underground, used by male Pueblo Indians for religious rites.

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The Iroquois Indians once lived along the St. Lawrence River which is located in what is now known as New York State

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An empire is a political construct in which one state dominates over another state, or a series of states.

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1.  relating to a family of North American Indian languages formerly spoken across a vast area from the Atlantic seaboard to the Great Lakes and the Great Plains.

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The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are summarized below.

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When the U. S. Constitution was signed it was ratified. When the U. S. Constitution was signed it was ratified.

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"Compromised" is a nice way of saying that someone or something has maliciously broken into your computer without your knowledge or permission.

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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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The system of rules and the people who make and administer them is known as a government.