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Unit 1 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Jamestown | The first successful and permanent English colony in North America. |
Joint stock company | Group of investors that share 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 free passage to America, given freedom and land at the end of their contract |
Powhatan | a 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 | Religious group that wanted to stay in the church of England and reform it |
Massachusetts Bay | the name of the colony that the Puritans established |
Theocracy | type of government in witch 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 say Massachusetts will be an example of regions faith and hard work. |
Thomas Hooker | founder of the Connecticut Colony |
Roger Williams | Founder of Rhode Island, wanted peace with the Native Americans. |
Rhode Island | The first colony to 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 in Pennsylvania |
Quakers | believed in equality between men and women, slavery was evil,and they could experience god through ¨Inner Light¨ |
First Great Awakening | Religious movement that swept through the colonies in the eraly 1700s |
First Great Awakening | Revival that led to more religious to more religious tolerance and more churches. |
George Whitefield | Famous preacher in the first Great Awakening that traveled allover 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 witch 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 there debts |
Debtor | a person that owes money to another. |
James Oglethorpe | founder of Georgia |
Cash crops | Crops that were sold to make profits in a global market. |
Overt | ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led rebellion |
Passive | ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, faked illnesses. |
Navigation arts | Laws passed by Parliament that regulated in the colonies so that only England benefited |
Separatist | 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 his treaty with hate Native Americans |
Spain | Catholic nation, colonized the Americans for gold and to convert Natives to Christianity |
France | Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with Natives |