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Will P Unit #1
Unit 1 vocab for social studies - due 8/31
Term | Definition |
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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 in Jamestown |
Indentured Servant | A person that agrees to work for 7-10 years in exchange for free passage to America, given freedom and land at the end of their contract |
Powhatans | Group of Native Americans that helped and also fought with the Jamestown settlers |
Pocahontas | Daughter of a Native American chief that helped Jamestown by providing food |
House of Burgesses | First representative government in North America, located in Virginia colony |
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 the Church of England and reform it |
Massachusetts Bay | The name of the colony the Puritans established |
Theocracy | Type of government in which 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, wanted peace with 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 Awakening | Religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700s; 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 slaves took from Africa to America |
Triangular Trade | A network of trading between the Americas, Europe and Africa exchanging raw materials, manufactured goods and slaves |
Mercantilism | The economic system in which a mother country sends manufactured goods to it's colonies in exchange for raw materials |
Georgia | Founded as a buffer colony and a place for the poor to work off their debts |
Debtor | A person that owes money to another |
James Oglethorpe | Founder of Georgia Colony |
Cash crops | Crops that are sold to make profits in a global market |
Overt Resistance | Ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion against their owner |
Passive Resistance | Ways slaves resisted slavery 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 |
William Penn | Leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans |
France | Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with Natives |