Thirteen Colonies - Parts 1-3

The event where in May 1637, the colonists surrounded a Pequot fort and set it on fire, shooting men, women and children as they tried to escape.

• Bacon's Rebellion

• Pequot Massacre

He established the colony of Pennsylvania.

• The Duke of York

• William Penn

Companies formed by people who put their money in support of a colony in hopes that the colony would be successful.

• Joint Stock Companies

• Charter Colonies

A permit from the king to start a colony.

• Charter

• Compact

The autocratic and unpopular governor of New Netherland, He surrendered to the English without a shot being fired.

• Peter Stuvysent

• The Duke of York

Now, New York City, this became the capital of New Netherland. 

• New Amsterdam

• Brooklyn

The Connecticut colonists formed an alliance with this group, old enemies of the Pequot.

• Iroquois

• Narragansett

She believed that people could worship God by themselves without the church or its ministers to interpret the Bible for them. 

• Anne Hutchinson

• Sarah Pritchett

The English renamed New Netherland this.

• New Jersey

• New York

Treated poorly by the Anglicans and Puritans, they believed that God’s “inner light” burned inside everyone.

• The Shakers

• The Quakers