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Demastus Unit #1
Vocan unit #1 due august 31 at midnight
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jamestown | The first successful and permanent English colony in North America. |
| Joint-stock company | A group of investors that share the profits and losses of a colony. |
| John Smith | A person that helped Jamestown survive with his leadership. |
| John Rolfe | The person that introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown, made it successful. |
| Indentured Servants | A person that agrees to work 7-10 years in exchange for a free passage to america, given freedom and land at the end of there 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 the 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 a fish as technique. |
| Puritan | Religious group that wanted to stay in the Church of England and reform it. |
| Massachusetts Bay | The name of the colony that 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. |
| City On a Hill | 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 the Native Americans. |
| Rhode Island | The first colony that established religious freedom. |
| Anne Hutchinson | Women that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meetings. |
| New Netherland | Dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance. A religious group that settled in Pennsylvania and believed in equality between men and women, that slavery was evil, and that they could experience God through an "Inner Light" |
| 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 |
| George Whitefield | Famous preacher in the first 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 America's. |
| Triangular trade | A network of trade between the Americans, Europe, and Africa exchanging raw materials, manufactured goods and slaves. |
| Mercantilism | The economic system in which a mother country sends manufactured 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 money in a global market. |
| Overt Resistance | Ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led rebellion against there owner. |
| Passive Resistance | Ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, and faked illness. |
| 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. |