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Social Studies Ch. 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Charter | A document signed by the king that granted his subjects the right to leave and establish elsewhere |
| Colony | Groups of citizens who leave a country to settle elsewhere |
| Joint Stock Company | Expeditions that were privately funded, investors shared costs, profits, and losses |
| Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in U. S. |
| John Smith | 1608, elected president of counsil |
| Pocahantas | Ally of the colonizers |
| Cash Crop | Crops that are for trading and selling for a large profit |
| Headright System | Stated each head of the family had the right to up to 1,000 acres of land |
| Indentured Servant | People who agreed to work the plantation for 5-7 years in exchange for a passage to America |
| Slave Code | Strict codes established to prevent uprisings |
| Bacon's Rebellion | An uprising in Virginia led by Nathanal Bacon that led to the burning of Jamestown |
| Lord Baltimore | Established Maryland in 1634 |
| Toleration Act | First formal declaration of religous freedom |
| Worthy Poor | People in debt |
| Plantation | Large land grants |
| Anglican Church | A church started by King Henry VIII also known as the Church of England |
| Puritans | Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England |
| Separitists | English protestants who wanted to separate from the Church of England, formed their own churches, and cut all ties with the Church of England |
| Pilgrims | People who left ehir country of birth to live in another country |
| William Bradford | A Pilgrim leader who sailed with the group |
| Mayflower | One of the Pilgrims ships who left England with more than 100 men, women, and children aboard |
| Mayflower Compact | A legal contract in which the male passengers on the Mayflower agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good. |
| Plymouth Rock | Where the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts |
| Squanto | A patuxet Indian who spoke some English, taught the Pilgrims how to fertilize soil, and help establish relationships with the Wampanoag Indians |
| Great Migration | Many thousands of men, women, and children left England because of economic, political, and religuos problems |
| Massachusetts Bay Colony | Where the Pilgrims landed and founded |
| John Winthrop | Leader of Mass. Bay Co. who led Puritan colonists to Mass. to establish an ideal Christian community |
| Thomas Hooker | He and his followers left Mass. to help found Connecticut |
| Roger Williams | A minister who didn't agree with the leadership of Mass. and separated his church from New England congregations |
| New England Primer | A book used by school children which had characters from the Blible |
| Harvard | John Harvard and the General Court founded Harvard College and taught higher education |
| Breadbasket | Nickname for middle colonies because of how much wheat and grain they grew |
| New Netherlands | Founded as a Dutch colony |
| New Amsterdan | Manhattan Island founded by Peter Minuit |
| Duke of York | Named New York after him (James Stuart) |
| William Penn | Early Quaker and founded Pennsulvania |
| Quakers | Pacifists who had no where to practice religion, Pennsylvania= safe haven |
| City of Brotherly Love | Philadelphia, capital of Pennsylvania, safe haven for Quakers, self governed |
| Privy Coynsil | King's advisers |
| Governor | Leader of colony |
| Proprietary Colony | Colonists vote for governor |
| Royal Colony | King chooses the governor |
| House fo Burgesses | First elected Body |
| Town Meeting | Where colonists gathered to discuss issues and influence dicisions |
| Zenger Case | Arrested for libel against the governor but was found not guilty |
| Mercantilism | A theory that a nation's weath is tied to its balance of trade |
| Import | Goods go in |
| Export | Goods go out |
| Navigation Acts | Colonies can't trade with other countries other than England |
| Great Awakening | Scientific Revolution in Europe, used logic and reason |
| Revivals | Made stars of traveling preachers |
| Fur Trade Industry | Indians recieved goods and colonists recieved furs they can't get in England |
| Ft. Necessity | Camp George Washington had to set up to have a little protection from the English |
| William Pitt | New British Prime Minister |
| 7 Years War | What the Europeans called the French and Indian War |
| Battle of Quebec | Turning point in America |
| General James Wolfe | Captured French settlement |
| Treaty of Paris | Ends war |
| Pontiac's Rebellian | Destroyed 8 British forts and resisted colonial migration west of Appellation Mountains |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Banned settlements west of Appalations |
| Sugar Act | First tax on imported goods containing sugar |
| Samuel Adams | Founded 'Committee of Correspondence' |
| "No taxation without representation" | Britian had no representation to tax them |
| Boycott | To prevent dealings with |
| Stamp Act | Required colonists to pay tax for an official seal "stamp" when purchasing paper items |
| Sons of Liberty | Organization to pretest the collection of taxes through boycott and violence |
| Townshend Acts | Tax on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea |
| Writs of Assistance | Gave tax collectors greater ability to trade and enforce |
| Boston Massacre | Argument between the colonists and British soldiers (resulted in a few deaths) |
| Crispus Attucks | First martyr of the Revolution |
| Boston Tea Party | Colonists dumped barrels of tea into the water |
| Tea Act | Made tea cheaper, high demand, still earned profut |
| Intolerable Acts | Acts unified colonies kn protest of the throne |
| Quartering Act | Required colonies to provide the needs of British soldiers |
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