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american colonies
social studies 2014 final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| separitist | a person who wanted to break with the anglican church |
| indentured servant | a person who worked 3-7 years to pay his passage to the new world |
| pilgrims | separitist-- people who started the Plymouth colony |
| puritants | separatists-- Masachusetts Bay colony |
| John Rolfe | he married Pocohauntis and made peace with the Powatan indians; brought the cash, crop and tobacco to the Jamestoen colony |
| John Smith | took control of Jamestown-- he said "NO work, NO food" |
| apprentices | a teen learning trade form a tradesmaster craftsman |
| The House of Burgesses | virginaia lagislature-- the first government in americ |
| mercantilism | an econonmic system-- colonies propose it is to benefit the mother counrty |
| triangular trade | trade routs connecting the colonies, England and Africa |
| st. Augustine | first perminant europian (spanish) settlment in the new world |
| Jamestown | first perminant english settlment in the new world |
| French and Indian war | anothername for the seven years war between england and france |
| fighting over the Ohio river Valley (furs and fertile land) | |
| france and england | two countries involved in the French and Indian war |
| france | indians sided with this counrty |
| treaty of paris 1763 | this document ended the war and england got land west of the appalacian mountains to Mississippi river |
| mayflower compact | an agreement (form of government) by the pilgrems in plymouth-- needed because the pilgrams landed north of the Virginia Coumpanies Land |
| may 13, 1607 | date of the settlement of Jamestown VA |
| date of settlement of Plymouth MA |