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Joshua M Unit#1
Vocab for social studies, due august 31
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jamestown | The first successful and permanent colonie in north america |
| Joint stock company | A group of investors that shared the profits and losses of a colony |
| John smith | Person that helped James town survive with his leadership |
| John Rolfe | A person that introduced tobacco into James town, making it successful |
| Indentured servant | A person that agrees to work 7-10 years in exchange for a free passage to america given freedom and land at their end of their contract |
| Powhatan | A group of Natives that helped and also fought with settlers |
| Pochahontas | Daughter of Native chief that helped Jamestown by providing food |
| House of Burgess | first representative government in north america, located in Virginia colony |
| The 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 group that wanted to stay in church of England so they reformed it |
| Massachusetts bay | name of colony puritans established |
| Theocracy | type of government in witch religious leaders make laws |
| Winthrop | governor of Massachusetts bay, leader of puritans |
| William Bradford | Governor of Plymouth, leader of pilgrims |
| city on a hill | name of speech given by john Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of hard and religious work |
| Thomas hooker | founder of Connecticut company |
| roger Williams | founder of Rhode island, wanted peace with native Americans |
| Rhode island | the first colony that established religious freedom |
| Anne Hutchinson | women that challenged Massachusetts bay by holding her own church meeting |
| new nether land | dutch colony that would become new york, encouraged tolerance 24. |
| Quakers | Dutch colony, religious group that settled Pennsylvanian and believed in equality between men and women , that slavery was evil, and that they could experience god through inner light. |
| the great awakening | religious movement that swept through colonies in 1700´s;a revival that led to religious tolerance and more churches |
| George Whitefield | Famous preacher in the great awakening that traveled around all the colonies |
| Jonathan Edwards | The first great awakening preacher who preached sinners in the hands of god. |
| Middle passage | the journey that took slaves from Africa to america |
| triangular trade | a network of trading between america, eroupe, and africa exchanging raw materials manufactured goods and slaves |
| mercantilism | The economic system in witch a mother country sends manufactured to its colonies in exchange for raw materials |
| Georgia | founded as a buffer colony and a place for the poor to work off their dept |
| Debetor | a person who owes money to another person |
| James Oglethorpe | founder of Georgia colony |
| cash crops | crops sold in order to make profits in global market |
| overt | ways in witch slaves fought back obviously |
| passive | ways in witch slaves fought back discreetly |
| navigation acts | laws passed by parliament that regulated trade in colonies so that only England could benefit |
| william penn | leader of Quakers who signed a treaty with native Americans |
| france | catholic nation that colonized america to profit off fur trade with natives |
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Joshua Mendoza6
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