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U1_SOL Review
Colonial Period
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| covenant community | A community that ABIDES BY REGULATIONS set forth in a WRITTEN AGREEMENT |
| Mayflower Compact | AGREEMENT written and signed by PILGRIM LEADERS before leaving the Mayflower to form a GOVERNMENT and submit to the will of the majority |
| religious freedom | FREEDOM TO PRACTICE the RELIGION of your choice |
| religious intolerance | UNWILLINGNESS TO GRANT EQUAL FREEDOM of expression to other religious groups, such as PURITANS in New England |
| religious tolerance | WILLINGNESS TO GRANT EQUAL FREEDOM of expression to other religious groups, such as QUAKERS in the mid-Atlantic |
| immigrant | a person who COMES TO A COUNTRY to take up PERMANENT RESIDENCY |
| direct democracy | a system of government in which the PEOPLE OF A COMMUNITY have the opportunity to VOTE TO CREATE NEW LAWS |
| town meeting | a GATHERING OF PEOPLE in NEW ENGLAND to discuss and VOTE ON NEW LAWS, practicing DIRECT DEMOCRACY |
| economic opportunity | the ability to MAKE A PROFIT through business ventures |
| cavalier | an ENGLISH NOBLE who came to the New World and was GIVEN LAND BY THE KING |
| land grant | a LARGE PIECE OF LAND in the New World GIVEN BY THE KING of England TO A CAVALIER |
| indentured servants | POOR PEOPLE who WORKED FOR OTHERS in the New World for a number of years IN EXCHANGE FOR THE COST OF THEIR TRAVEL from Europe |
| Virginia Company of London | the company that STARTED the settlement at JAMESTOWN to seek ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY |
| Jamestown | the FIRST PERMANENT ENGLISH SETTLEMENT in NORTH AMERICA |
| Virginia House of Burgesses | the FIRST ELECTED ASSEMBLY in the NEW WORLD that has OPERATED CONTINUOUSLY SINCE THE 1640’S |
| Virginia General Assembly | the current LAWMAKING BODY of Virginia that STARTED in the 1640’s AS THE VIRGINIA HOUSE OF BURGESSES |
| agricultural economy | An economy based on SELLING CROPS grown on FARMS AND PLANTATIONS |
| France | the European country that had the MOST PEACEFUL RELATIONSHIPS WITH NATIVE AMERICANS IN CANADA |
| disease | the main REASON that so many NATIVE AMERICANS DIED after the Europeans arrived |
| 1607 | the year that JAMESTOWN WAS ESTABLISHED |
| Spain | the EUROPEAN COUNTRY from which many people CAME TO THE CARIBBEAN AND CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA |
| Africa | the CONTINENT from which people were brought to the New World as SLAVES |
| England and Spain | the two EUROPEAN COUNTRIES who had the MOST CONFLICT NATIVE AMERICANS in the New World |
| 1619 | the year the FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICANS were brought to JAMESTOWN to work on TOBACCO PLANTATIONS |
| economy | how societies produce, distribute, and consume of goods and services; HOW A REGION MAKES MONEY |
| free enterprise system | PRIVATE BUSINESSES with MINIMAL GOVERNMENT REGULATION |
| New York & Philadelphia | SEAPORTS and commercial centers in the MIDDLE ATLANTIC states |
| cash crop | a crop that could be grown in LARGE QUANTITIES on plantations and SOLD FOR A PROFIT in Europe |
| small-scale subsistence farming | SMALL FARMS that supported the needs of a FAMILY |
| Puritans | members of the Church of England who WANTED A PURIFIED CHURCH without ceremonies and rich clothes; settled in New England INTOLERANT of other religions |
| Anglicans | Members of the CHURCH OF ENGLAND; all Englishmen were expected to belong to this church |
| Quakers, Jews, Huguenots & Presbyterians | TOLERANT RELIGIOUS GROUPS that settled in the MIDDLE ATLANTIC colonies – Quakers in Pennsylvania, Jews & Huguenots in New York, and Presbyterians in New Jersey |
| Methodists & Baptists | EVANGELICAL RELIGIONS that spread throughout Europe and the colonies during the “GREAT AWAKENING” in the mid-1700’s |
| Great Awakening | RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT DURING THE MID-1700’S led to the rapid growth of evangelical religions, challenged the established religious and governmental order, and laid social foundations for American Revolution |
| Middle Passage | the middle part of the Triangle Trade ROUTE WHICH BROUGHT SLAVES to the New World |
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