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Unit 1 Vocab
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jamestown | the first successful and permanent English colony of North America |
| Joint Stock Company | group of inventors that share the profits and losses of a colony |
| John Smith | person that helped Jamestown survive with his leadership |
| John Rolfe | 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, given freedom and land at end of contract |
| Powhatan | group of natives that helped and also fought with the Jamestown settlers |
| Pocahontas | daughter of a chief of the tribe who helped Jamestown by providing food |
| House of Burguesses | first representative government in North America, located in the Virginia colony |
| Separatists | the pilgrims; wanted to break away from the church |
| Plymouth | where the pilgrims settled |
| Mayflower Compact | government of the pilgrims that set up majority rule |
| Squanto | Native American that helped pilgrims by showing them ways to survive in their environment |
| Puritans | Religious group the wanted to reform and purify the Church of England |
| Massachusetts Bay | the name of the colony where the Puritans settled |
| Theocracy | government ruled by church officials |
| John Wintrop | governor of the Massachusetts Bay area |
| William Bradford | governor of Plymouth, leader of Pilgrims |
| City on a hill | name of speech given by John Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of hard work and religious faith |
| Thomas Hooker | founded Connecticut |
| Roger Williams | founded Rhode Island for religious freedom |
| Rhode Island | the first colony to establish religious freedom |
| Anne Hutchinson | woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by preaching |
| New Netherland | Dutch colony that became New York; founded for economic purposes |
| Quakers | 1.religious group that settled in Pennsylvania 2.believed in equality between genders, slavery was evil, and they could experience God through the Inner Light |
| First Great Awakening | 1.religious movement that swept through the colonies 2.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 |
| Jonathan Edwards | preacher who preached "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God" |
| Middle Passage | journey across the Atlantic or slaves being brought to Cuba and the Americas |
| Triangular Trade | a network of trade between Europe, Africa and, the colonies that exchanged raw materials, manufactured goods, and slaves |
| Mercantilism | the economic system in which a mother country sends manufactured goods to its colonies for raw materials |
| Georgia | founded as a buffer and a place to work off debts |
| Debtor | someone that owes money |
| James Oglethorpe | founder of Georgia |
| Cash Crops | crops that were sold to make profits; ex: tobacco, rice, indigo |
| Overt | ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious |
| Passive | ways in which slave fought back that weren't obvious |
| Navigation Acts | laws passed that made it to where the colonies could only trade with England |
| Separatists | a group of people that wanted to break away from or separate from the Church of England |
| France | country that colonized Canada for fur trade |
| Spain | Catholic nation, colonized the Americas for gold and to convert Natives to Catholicism |
| William Penn | leader of the Quakers the signed a treaty with the Natives |
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