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Matt Melamed Unit #1
Unit 1 Vocab For SS due August 31
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 the profits and losses of a colony |
John Smith | Person that helped Jamestown survive with his leadership |
John Rolfe | The person that introduced tobacco growing to Jamestown, made it successful |
Indentured Servant | A person That agrees to 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 fought with the Jamestown settlers |
Pocahontas | Daughter of a Native American chief who helped the Jamestown settlers by providing food |
House of Burgesses | The first representative government in North America,Located in the Virginia colony |
Separatists | Also called 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 pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony |
Squanto | Native American that helped the pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a technique |
Puritans | Religious Group that wanted to stay in the Church of England and reform it |
Massachusetts Bay | The name of the colony the Puritans established |
Theocracy | A type of government in which the 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 says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work |
Thomas Hooker | Founder of the Connecticut colony |
Roger Williams | The founder of Rhode Island who wanted peace with the Native Americans |
Rhode Island | The first colony that established religious freedom |
Anne Hutchinson | Woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meetings |
New Netherland | Dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance |
Quakers | Religious group that settled Pennsylvania and believed in equality between men and women,that slavery was evil, and that they could experience God through an “Inner Light” |
First great awaking | Religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700's,a revival that led to more religious tolerance and more churches |
George Whitefield | Famous preacher in the first great awakening that traveled all over the colonies |
Jonathan Edwards | First Great awakening preacher who preached the sermon sinners in the hands of an angry god |
Middle passage | The journey that took slaves from Africa to america |
Triangular trade | A network of trading between the Americans,Europe,and Africa exchanging raw materials ,manufactured goods,and slaves |
Mercantilism | The economic system in which 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 of their debts |
Debtor | A person that owes money to another |
James Oglethorpe | Founder of the Georgia colony |
Cash Crops | Crops that are sold in a global market to make profits |
Overt Resistance | Ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious,they ran away or rebelled against their owners |
Passive Resistance | Ways in which slaves resisted that were not obvious.they slowed down work,broke equipment,faked illnesses |
Navigation Acts | Laws passed by parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited(Colonies could only trade with Great Britain) |
William Penn | Leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans |
France | Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off fur trade with the Natives |