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Taj Rahman Unit#1
due date: 8/31
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jamestown | the first successful and permanent English colony in North America |
| Joint-stock Company | a group of investors that share the profit and losses |
| John smith | a person that helped Jamestown survive |
| John Rolfe | The person that made tobacco successful, in Jamestown |
| Indentured Servants | 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 |
| Pocahontas | Daughter of native american chef that provided Jamestown with food |
| House of Burgesses | first representative government i north america, located in Virginia |
| Separatists | also called pilgrims, wanted to break off from the church of England |
| Powhatan | group of native american chief that helped and also fought with the settlers |
| Plymouth | Name of the colony that the separatists established for religious freedom |
| Mayflower compact | Government of the Pilgrims that set u majority rule in their colony |
| Squanto | Native american that helped pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as 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 Connecticut colony |
| Roger Williams | the founder of Rhode island, wanted peace with native Americans |
| Rhode island | the first colony that established religious freedom |
| Anne Hutchinson | woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her 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 women, that slavery was evil, and they could experience God through an Inner light |
| great awakening | religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700's a revival that led to more religious tolerance and more churches |
| George Whitefield | the famous preacher in the first great awakening |
| John Edwards | the first preacher who preached the sermon Sinners in the angry hands of god |
| Middle passage | the journey that slaves took from Africa to America |
| Triangular trade | a network of trading between the Americas, Africa, and Europe 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 goods |
| Georgia | founded a a buffer colonies and place for poor to work off debt |
| Debtor | a person that owes money to another |
| James Oglethorpe | founder of Georgia colony |
| Cash crops | products that are sold to make profits in a global market |
| overt resistance | ways in which slaves fought back that were odvious |
| passive resistance | ways slaves fought back that were not odvious |
| navigation acts | Laws passed by Parliament so that only England benefited |
| William Penn | leader of Quakers that signed a treaty with the native Americans |
| France | Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with natives |
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