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webb ogden Unit#1
social studies vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jamestown | first permanent English settlement in the Americas |
| Powhatan | a member of any of the Indian tribes belonging to the Powhatan Confederacy |
| Quakers | member of the Society of Friends |
| Joint Stock Company | business owned by its investors, with each investor owning a share of the company based on the amount that they've invested |
| France | a republic in W Europe |
| City on a Hill | above all |
| Debtor | a person who is in debt or under financial obligation to another |
| Jonathan Edwards | was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist theologian |
| John Smith | was an English soldier, explorer, colonial governor, admiral of New England, and author |
| Puritans | A group of radical English Protestants that arose in the late sixteenth century and became a major force in England during the seventeenth century |
| Navigational Acts | acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods |
| First Great Awakening | a period when spirituality and religious devotion were revived |
| James Oglethorpe | founder of the colony of Georgia |
| Mercantilism | practices or spirit |
| George Whitefield | Anglican cleric and evangelist who was one of the founders of Methodism |
| John Rolfe | was an English explorer, farmer and merchant. |
| Indurchent servent | A person that agrees to work 7-10 years in exchange for freedom after serving there time |
| Georgia | The name of a colony that sepersit establisht for religouse freedom |
| Triangler trade | trade between America,Europe,and Africa |
| Squanto | Showed english man how to fish and grow crops |
| Cash crops | Crops that were sold to make money |
| Spain | founded colonies in the americas |
| Passive Resistance | Ways slaves slowey resisted doing work and not making it oviouse |
| Sepriest | A person who agrees to sperate from the church |
| Pocahontas | helped english men learn to grow food and fish |
| Middle Passage | The journy Slaves took to come to America |
| Mayflower compact | fist written document of a agreement in the us |
| Overt Resitance | fighting back against the slave owners |
| William Bradford | English sperasit |
| Massachusetts bay | founded by william penn very rligouse colonies |
| France | A Cathloic nation that came for fur trade and mercantlism |
| William Penn | leader of the quakers that signed a treaty with natives |
| Plymouth | the name of a colonie putins made |
| Theocracy | religouse leaders make laws |
| John Winthrop | founded Massacusetts bay colonies |
| Thomas Hooker | founded the connetict colony |
| Rhode Isand | Religouse tolorated colony |
| Roger williams | founder of rhoad island |
| Anne Hutchinson | held her own church meetings |
| New Netherland | Dutch colonie that would become new york |