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Audrey Grant Unit #1
vocab for Mr Loy (8/31)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |