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Foy Ch. 3 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Jamestown | The first colony in America; set up in 1607 along the James River in Virginia. |
indentured servants | A colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years. |
Bacon's Rebellion | A 1676 attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and the colonial government in Virginia. |
Toleration Act of 1649 | A Maryland law that made restricting the religious rights of Christians a crime; the first law guaranteeing religious freedom to be passed in America. |
slave codes | Laws passed in the colonies to control slaves. |
Puritans | Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England. |
Pilgrims | Members of a Puritan Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600's to settle in the Americas. |
immigrants | People who move to another country after leaving their homeland. |
Mayflower Compact | A 1620 document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government. |
Quakers | Society of Friends; Protestant sect founded in 1640's in England whose members believed that salvation was available to all people. |
staple crops | Crops that are continuously in demand. |
town meeting | A political meeting at which people make decisions on local issues; used primarily in New England. |
English Bill of Rights | A 1689 shift of political power from the British monarchy to Parliament. |
triangular trade | Trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, and Africa. |
Middle Passage | A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies. |
Great Awakening | A religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730's and 1740's. |
Enlightenment | The Age of Reason; movement that began in Europe in the 1700's as people began examining the natural world, society and government. |
Committees of Correspondence | Committee's created by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 1760's to help towns and colonies share information. |
Stamp Act of 1765 | A law passed by Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newspapers, licenses, and legal documents. |
Boston Massacre | A 1770 incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonist, killing five people |
Tea Act | A 1778 law passed by Parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party. |
Boston Tea Party | A 1773 protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more than 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. |
Intolerable Acts | 1774 laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control of the colonies. |