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Jamestown | The first successful and permanent English colony in North America. |
Joint stock company | Group of investors that shares the profits and losses of a colony. |
John smith | Person that helped Jamestown survive with his leadership. |
John Rolfe | The person that introduced tobacco to Jamestown, made it successful. |
Indentured servant | A person that agrees to work for 7-10 years in exchange for free passage to America, given freedom and land at the end of their 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 and reform it. |
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. |
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. |
Rodger Williams | The founder of Rhode Island, wanted peace with 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 Netherlands | Dutch colony that would become New York, encourage tolerance 24. |
First Great Awkening | 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. |
Johnathan Edwards | First great awakening preacher who preached the sermons Sinners in the hands of an angry God. |
Middle passage | The journey slaves took from Africa to the Americas. |
Triangle trade | A network of trading between the Americas, 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 Oglethorpe | Founder of Georgia colony. |
Cash Crops | Crops that are sold to make profits in a global market. |
Overt | Ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion against their owner. |
Passive | Ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, faked sick. |
Navigation Acts | Laws passed by parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited. |
William Penn | Leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the native Americans. |
France | Catholic nation that colonized America to make a profit off fur trade with the natives. |