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Rio S. Unit 1 Vocab
Unit 1 Vocab for Mr.Loy Social studies 8th grade Due 8/31
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jamestown | the first permanent and successful English colony, located in Virginia |
| Joint Stock Company | Group of investors that share the profits and losses of a colony |
| John Smith | This person was key in the survival of Jamestown due to his leadership |
| John Rolfe | This person introduced Tobacco to jamestown |
| indentured servant | Someone who works 7-10 years in for free passage to america and at the end of their contract gets freedom and land |
| Powhatan | Group of natives who helped and engaged in conflict with Jamestown settlers |
| Pocahontas | Daughter of Powhatan chief who helped jamestown |
| House of burgesses | The first representative government in north america |
| Separatists | group that wanted to break away from the church of England also called pilgrims |
| Plymouth colony | The colony that the separatists founded |
| The mayflower compact | The government set up by pilgrims outlaying it the colony shloud operate |
| Squanto | the native american that helped the pilgrims and acted as a interpreter |
| Puritans | Group that didn't want to leave the Anglican church but wanted to massively reform it |
| Massachusetts bay colony | colony that the puritans founded |
| Theocracy | a government where religious leaders make laws |
| John Winthrop | He wast the leader of the puritans and the Governor of the Massachusetts bay colony |
| William Bradford | leader of the pilgrims and Governor of the Plymouth colony |
| City on a hill | Name of a famous speech by john winthrop outlining how massachsuets will be perfect example of faith and hard work |
| Thomas hooker | Founder of connecticut |
| Roger williams | the founder of rhode island |
| Rhode island | First colony that established religous toleranace |
| anne hutchinson | woman who fought the puritan belifs preached from her home and eventually kicked out |
| new netherland | Dutch colony in north america. |
| quakers | Religious group that settled pennsylvania and believed in equality between men and women |
| The first great awakening | Religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1700s. Led to more tolerance and churches. |
| James oglethorpe | Founder of Georgia colony |
| Cash crops | Crops sold for profit |
| William Penn | founder of the Pennsylvania colony and bought land from natives |
| Navigation acts | Laws Parliament made to control who the colonists could trade with |
| Georgia | colony founded as a buffer and for prisoners to work of debts in decent conditions. |
| Middle passage | Journey that slaves made from africa to the americas |
| Mercantilism | economic system where a mother country sets up colonies for the raw goods it can get to then turn into manufactured goods and sell at inflated prices. |
| France | Country that colonized america for the fur trade; Capital paris |
| Passive resistance | not obvious ways that slaves resisted slavery. |
| Overt resistance | ways slaves resisted slavery that were obvious, example , rebellling |
| debtor | Person who owes money to someone else |
| Jonathan Edwards | great awakening preacher who preached the sermon sinners in the hands of an angry god. |
| George Whitefield | Famous first great awakening preacher who traveled all over the colonies. |
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