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USVA SOL
USVA SOL 2-4: Colonies (part one)
Term | Definition |
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Jamestown | 1st lasting English settlement; meant to provide gold, God and glory to the mother country |
VA Company of London | A joint-stock company: based in Virginia in 1607: founded to find gold and a water way to the Indies; three of their ships transported the people that would found Jamestown in 1607. |
Cavaliers | English nobility, who received large land grants in eastern Virginia from the King of England. |
Appalachians | The mountain range running through the Eastern United States; marked the western border of the colonies |
Indentured Servants | Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years |
What year were the first slaves brought to America? | 1619 |
House of Burgesses | 1640 - The first legislative body in colonial America. Later became known as the General Assembly |
What year was the first legislative body set up in VA? | 1640 |
Mayflower Compact | 1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony. |
Direct Democracy | A form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives. Seen in New England town meetings. |
New England's economy was based off: | Subsistence farming, fishing |
Roger Williams | 1635 - He left the Massachusetts colony and purchased the land from a neighboring Indian tribe to found the colony of Rhode Island. Rhode Island was the only colony at that time to offer complete religious freedom. |
Subsistence Farming | Farming in which only enough food to feed one's family is produced |
Rhode Island | A New England or Northern colony. It was the smallest of the original 13 colonies. Created by Roger Williams and believed in religious tolerance for all people. |
Puritans | A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay. |
Middle Colonies | Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania |
Southern Colonies | Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
Cash Crops in South | Tobacco, Indigo, Rice |
Great Awakening | Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century, led to rise in Baptist and Methodist churches |
Middle Passage | A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies |