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U.S. History Unit 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bacon's Rebellion | An uprising by poor English colonists against the governor and his landowning supporters. |
| Half-Way Covenant | church membership for the children of the Puritans, as more of them were born and many grew up w/o a personal covenant. |
| Salem Witch Trials | A series of court hearings, over 150 Massachusetts colonists accused of witchcraft were tried. |
| New Amsterdam | Territory settled by the Dutch and later conquered by the British and renamed New York. |
| Mercantilism | theory influenced British, stated that Earth had a limited supply of wealth in form of natural resources, acquire the most wealth. |
| Transatlantic Trade | Trade between Britain and the colonies with resources and slave |
| Middle Passage | sea voyage that carried Africans to North America, the middle portion of a three-way voyage made by the slave ships. |
| Benjamin Franklin | One of the world’s leading authors, philosophers, scientists, inventors, and politicians during the 1700s. |
| Social Mobility | Wanting to rise in society. |
| The Great Awakening | revival in 1730s-40s in northeastern colonies where Ministers said people would feel God’s love only if they admitted their sins. |
| Virginia Company | An English firm that planned to make money by sending people to America to find gold and other valuable natural resources and then ship the resources back to England. |
| House Of Burgesses | The first European-type legislative body in the New World - it was similar to England's Parliament. |
| Powhatan | A notable Native American chieftain in the Virginia region. |
| King Philip's War | A bloody conflict named after the leader of the Native Americans between Puritan colonists and Native Americans. |
| Quebec | First permanent French settlement in North American. |
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