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G. richardson unit 1
vocab for mr loys class due august 31st
Question | Answer |
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Jamestown | the first successful and permanent English colony in North America |
Joint stock company | group of investors that share the profits and losses of a colony |
John Rolfe | the person that introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown, made it successful |
John smith | the person that helped Jamestown survive with his leadership |
Indentured servant | a person that agrees to work for 7-10 years in exchange for free passage to america, given freedom and land at the end of their contract |
Powhatan | group of Native Americans that helped and also fought with the Jamestown settlers |
Pocahontas | Daughter of a Native American chief that helped Jamestown by providing food |
House of Burgesses | first representative government in North America, located in Virginia colony |
Separatists | Also called the pilgrims, wanted to break from the church of England |
Plymouth | Name of the colony that separatists established for religious freedom |
Mayflower compact | government of the pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony |
Squanto | Native American that helped pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a technique |
Puritans | Religious group that wanted to stay in the Church of england and reform it |
Massachussets bay | the name of the colony the puritans established |
Theocracy | type of government in which religious leaders make the laws |
John Winthrop | governor of massachusetts bay, leader of the puritans |
William Bradford | Governor of Plymouth, leader of the Pilgrims |
A Modell of Christian Charity | name of a speech given by John Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work |
Thomas Hooker | founder of the Connecticut Colony |
Roger williams | the founder of Rhode Island, wanted peace with Native Americans |
Rhode Island | the first colony that established religious freedom |
Anne Hutchinson | woman that challenged the leadership of massachussets bay by holding her own church meetings |
New Netherland | dutch colony that would become New York encouraged tolerance |
Quakers | religious group that settled Pennslvania and believed in equality between men and wome, that slavery was evil, and that they could experience God through an "Inner Light" |
First great awakening | religious movement that swept through the oclonies in the early 1700s; a revival that led to more religious tolerance and more churches |
George Whitefield | famous preacher in the first great Awakening that traveled all over the colonies |
Jonathan Edwards | First Great Awakening Preacher who preached the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
Middle passage | the journey slaves took from Africa to the Americas. |
Triangular Trade | a network of trading between the Americans, Europe, and Africa exchanging raw materials, manufactured goods, and slaves |
Mercantilism | the economic system in which a mother country sends manufac tured goods to its colonies in exchange for raw materials |
Georgia | founded as a buffer colony and a place for the poor to work off their debts |
James Oglethorpe | founder of Georgia colony |
Cash Crops | crops that are sold to make profits in a global market |
Overt resistance | ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion against their owners |
Passive resistance | ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, faked illnesses |
The navigation acts | Laws passed by Parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited (Colonies could only trade with Great Britain) |
William Penn | leader of the quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans |
France | Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with Natives; |