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social studies vocab
Term | Definition |
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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 |