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JR Waddell Unit #1
Due August 31
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jamestown | the first successful and permanent English colony in North America |
| Powhatan | Group of Native Americans Who helped and fought with Jamestown settlers |
| Joint stock company | group of investors that share the profits and losses of a colony |
| France | catholic nation that colonized america to profit off the fur trade with natives |
| Johnathan Edwards | First Great Awakening preacher who preached the sermon sinners in the hands of god |
| John Smith | Person that helped Jamestown survive with his leadership |
| puritans | Religious group that wanted to stay in the Church of England and reform it |
| John Rolfe | The person that introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown made it successful |
| Massachusetts Bay | the name of the colony the Puritans established |
| William Bradford | 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 Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meetings |
| First Great Awakening | religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700s; a revival that led to more religious tolerance and more churches |
| indentured servants | a person who works 7-10 years in exchange for free passage to america given freedom and land at the end of there time. |
| Chief Powhatans | daughter of a native america chief that helped provide food for jamestown |
| The House of Burgesses | First representative government in north america |
| Separatist | Also called Pilgrims that wanted to break away from the Church of England |
| The townsman | government of the Pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony |
| theocracy | type of government in which relgious leaders make the rules |
| john winthrop | governor of Massachusetts bay leader of the puritans |
| William Bradford | governor of Plymouth leader of the Pilgrims |
| A model of christian charity | name of a speech given john winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work |
| thoms hooker | founder of the Connecticut colony |
| roger williams | the founder of Rhode island wanted peace with native americans |
| anne hutchision | woman that challenged the leadership of the Church of Massachusetts |
| george whitefield | famous preacher in the First Great Awakening that traveled all across the colonies |
| the middle passage | the journey the slaves took from Africa to america |
| triangler trade | a trading network between the Americans Europeans and Africa exchanging raw materials |
| georgia | founded as a buffer colony and was also a place where poor people could pay off there taxes |
| James Edward Oglethorpe | founder Georgia colony |
| cash crops | crops that were sold to make profits |
| slave resistance | they slowed down work faked illenis and broke tools so they could stop working |
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