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Audrey Grant Unit #1
vocab for Mr Loy (8/31)
Term | Definition |
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jamestown | the first successful and permanent english colony in north america |
joint stock | group of investors that share the profits and losses of a colony |
john smith | person that helped jamestown survive with hid leadership |
john rolfe | the person that introduce tobacco growing in jamestown + made it successful |
indentured servant | a person that agrees to work for 7 to 10 years in exchange for free passage to america given freedom and land at the end of their contract |
powhatin | 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 them food |
separatists | (AKA 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 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 the Puritans established |
thocracy | type of government in which religious leaders make the laws |
john winthrop | governor of Massachusetts Bay, leader of the Puritans |
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 Native Americans |
rhode island | the first colony that established religious freedom |
anna hutchensin | woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meetings |
new netherland | Dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance |
the great awakening | religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700s; a revival that led to more religious tolerance and more churches |
quakers | religious group that settled Pennsylvania and believed in equality between men and women, that slavery was evil, and that they could experience God through an “Inner Light" |
george whitefield | Famous preacher in the First Great Awakening that traveled all over the colonies |
george whitefield | First Great Awakening preacher who preached the sermon Sinners in the Hands ofan Angry God |
the middle passage | the journey slaves took from Africa to the Americas |
triangular trade | a network of trading 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 |
debtor | a person that owes money to another |
james oglethorp | founder of Georgia colony |
cash crop | crops that are sold to make profits in a global market |
overt resistance | ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion against their owners |
passive resistance | ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, faked illnesses |
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 bradford | 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 |