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Unit 1 Vocabulary

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Jamestown The first successful and permanent English colony in North America.
Joint Stock Company Group of investors that share the profits and losses of a colony.
John Smith A person that helped Jamestown survive with his leadership.
John Rolfe A 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 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.
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 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.
Roger Williams Founder of Rhode Island, wanted peace with Native Americans.
Rhode Island The first colony that established religious freedom.
Anne Hutchinson A 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.
Quakers Religious group that settled Pennsylvania
Quakers Believed in equality between men and women, slavery was evil, and they could experience God through an "Inner Light".
First Great Awakening Religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700s.
First Great Awakening 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 First Great Awakening preacher who preached the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".
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 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 owners.
Passive 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.
Separatists Religious group that wanted to break away from the Church of England.
Navigation Acts Series of laws that required colonies to only trade with Great Britain.
France Country in Europe that colonized Canada and the Mississippi River Valley.
Spain Country in Europe that founded colonies in South America, Mexico, and the Southwest.
William Penn Leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans.
Spain Catholic nation, colonized the Americas for gold and to convert Natives to Christianity.
France Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the Fur trade with Natives.
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