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Will Js Unit 1 Vocab

Unit 1 Vocab due 8-31

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Jamestown The first successful and prosperous English colony in North America
Joint Stock Company A group of investors that share money from a colony but also the losses
John Smith The leader of Jamestown that was influential in having Jamestown last.
John Rolfe Introduced and made tobacco successful in Jamestown.
Indentured Servant Someone who volunteers to work for 7-10 years in exchange for free passage to America and land and money.
Powhatan A Native American tribe that fought and helped Jamestown in its early days
Pocahontas Daughter of Powhatan Chief, She married John Rolfe and helped the settlers at Jamestown by giving them food.
House of Burgesses The first representative government in the New World. Located in Virginia
Separatists The group that wanted to break from the Church of England, The Pilgrims
Plymouth The colony that the pilgrims established in the New World.
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 The group that wanted to purify not leave the Church of England
Massachusetts Bay The colony that the Puritans established
Theocracy A government where the secular leaders are the religious leaders too.
John Winthrop The leader of the Puritans and the Governor of the Massachusetts colony
City on a Hill The name of the speech made by John Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of faith and hard work.
Thomas Hooker The man who founded the Connecticut colony
Roger Williams The man who founded Rhode Island and made peace with the natives
Rhode Island First colony to have religious tolerance
Anne Hutchinson, The woman who held her own church meetings in Massachusetts Bay
New Netherland The colony that would become New York, founded by the Dutch and was very tolerant
Quakers the religious group that believed in gender equality, slavery was evil, and that they could worship using an Inner Life. They settled in Penslyvania
First Great Awakening The religious movement that promoted churches and religious tolerance
George Whitefield The famous First Great Awakening preacher
Jonathan Edwards The creator of the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Middle Passage The trip slaves took on their way to the Americas from Africa
Triangular Trade The trading network that sold slaves as well as raw and manufactured good between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
Mercantilism The system where the colonies are the supplier of cheap raw goods and the buyer of expensive manufactured goods
Georgia The colony that was founded to be a buffer to protect the Carolina's from Spanish Florida and a place for prisoners and debtors to work
Debtor Someone who owes someone else money
James Oglethorpe The founder of the Georgia Colony, Former soldier who got into politics
Cash Crops Crops that are very valuable in the global market
Overt Resistance The name of ways that a slave visibly fought back including rebellion or running away
Passive Resistance The name of ways that a slave visibly fought back including doing slow work, faked illness, and breaking equipment
Navigation Acts Rules made Parliament that made sure that the colonies only traded with England
William Penn The man who signed a treaty with the Native American and the leader of the Quakers
France The Nation that colonized America to make a profit off the fur trade by trading with the natives
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