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Huffman unit #1
vocabulary due 8/31
Term | Definition |
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James town | the first successful and permanent English colony in north america. |
Joint stock company | groups of investors that share the profit and losses of a colony. |
John smith | person that helped Jamestown survive with his leadership. |
John Rolfe | The person that introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown, made it successful. |
Indentured servant | a person that agrees to work for 7-10 years in exchange for a free passage to America, and they were given freedom and land. at the end of their contract |
Powhatan | a group of native Americans that helped and fought with Jamestown settlers. |
Pocahontas | Daughter of a native american chief, helped Jamestown by providing food |
house of Burgess | First representative government in north america |
Separatists | also called the Pilgrims they wanted to break free from the church of England. |
Plymouth | Government of the pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony |
Squanto | Native american that helped pilgrims that showed them how to grow food by using fish as a technique |
Puritans | 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 | the type of government where religious leaders make 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 |
Spain | Name of the colony that separatists established for religious freedom |
Rhode Island | the first colony that established religious freedom. |
Anne Hutchinson | woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts by holding their own church meetings |
New Netherlands | Dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance |
Quakers | Religious group that settled Pennsylvania and believed in equality between men and woman and that slavery was evil, and that they could expirience god through an "inner Light" |
The 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 great awakening that traveled all over the colonies. |
May Flower compact | First great awakening that traveled all over the colonies. |
The middle passage | the journey slaves took from Africa to the Americas. |
Triangular trade | a network of trading between the Americas, Europe and Africa exchanging manufactured goods for raw materials. |
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 |
Debtor | a person that owes money to another person. |
James Oglethorpe | founder of Georgia colony. |
Cash crops | crops that are sold to make profits in a global market. |
passive resistance | Ways in which slaves fought back that wasn't obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion against their owners. |
Overt resistance | Ways slaves resisted slavery that were obvious; they slowed down work or broke equipment, faked illness |
Navigational act | 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 or the Quakers that signed a treaty with the native Americans. |
France | Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off fur trade with Natives. |
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