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Wilson M Unit1 vocab
Wilson Molina Unit 1 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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The first successful and permanent English colony in North America. | Jamestown. |
Group of investors that share the profits and losses of a colony. | Joint Stock Company. |
Person that helped Jamestown survive with his leadership. | John Smith. |
The person that introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown, made it successful. | John Rolfe. |
A person agrees to work 7-10 years in exchange for free passage to America, given freedom and land at the end of their contract. | Indentured Servant. |
Group of Native Americans that helped and also fought with the Jamestown settlers. | Powhatan. |
Daughter of a Native American chief that helped Jamestown by providing food. | Pocahontas. |
First representative government in North America, located in Virginia colony. | House of Burgesses. |
Also called the Pilgrims, wanted to break from the Church of England. | Separatists. |
Name of the colony that the Separatists established for religious freedom. | Plymouth. |
Government of the Pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony. | Mayflower Compact. |
Native American that helped pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a technique. | Squanto. |
Religious group that wanted to stay in the Church of England and reform it. | Puritans. |
The name of the colony the Puritans established. | Massachusetts Bay. |
Type of government in which religious leaders make the laws. | Theocracy. |
Governor of Massachusetts Bay, leader of the Puritans. | John Winthrop. |
Governor of Plymouth, leader of the Pilgrims. | William Bradford. |
Name of a speech given by John Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work. | City On A Hill. |
Founder of the Connecticut Colony. | Thomas Hooker. |
The founder of Rhode Island, wanted peace with Native Americans. | Roger Williams. |
The first colony that established religious freedom. | Rhode Island. |
Woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meetings. | Anne Hutchinson. |
Dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance. | New Netherland. |
Religious group that settled in Pennsylvania and believed in equality between men and women, that slavery was evil, and that they could experience God through an “Inner Light.” | Quakers. |
Religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700's; a revival that led to more religious tolerance and more churches. | First Great Awakening. |
Famous preacher in the First Great Awakening that traveled all over the colonies. | George Whitefield. |
First Great Awakening preacher who preached the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. | Jonathan Edwards. |
The journey slaves took from Africa to the Americas. | Middle Passage. |
A network of trading between the Americans, Europe and Africa exchanging raw materials, manufactured goods and slaves. | Triangular Trade. |
The economic system in which a mother country sends manufactured goods to its colonies in exchange for raw materials. | Mercantilism. |
Founded as a buffer colony and a place for the poor to work off their debts. | Georgia. |
A person that owes money to another. | Debtor. |
Founder of Georgia colony. | James Oglethorpe. |
Crops that are sold to make profits in a global market. | Cash Crops. |
Ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion against their owners. | Overt Resistance. |
Ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, faked illnesses. | Passive Resistance. |
Laws passed by Parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited (colonies could only trade with Great Britain). | Navigation Acts. |
Leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans. | William Penn. |
Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with Natives. | France. |