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Chloe.M Unit 1 Vocab
Mr. Loy Unit #1 Vocab SS- due 8/31 (FOR TEST)
Term | Definition |
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Jamestown | The first successful and permanent English colony in North America. |
Joint Stock Company | Group of investors who share the profits and losses of a company. |
John Smith | The person that helped Jamestown, and made it successful. |
John Rolfe | The person that introduced growing tobacco in Jamestown, and made it successful. |
Indentured Servant | A person that works for 7-10 yrs in exchange for free passage to America, they are given freedom and land at the end of the contract. |
The Powhatan | A group of Native Americans that helped and, also fought, the Jamestown settlers . |
Pocahontas | The Daughter of a Native American Chief that helped Jamestown by providing food. |
The House of Burgesses | The first representative government in North America, located in the Virginia colony. |
Separatists | Also called the Pilgrims, they wanted to break from the Church Of England. |
Rhode Island | Name of the colony that the Separatists established for religious freedom. |
The Mayflower Compact | The government of the Pilgrims that set up majority rules in their colony. |
Squanto | The Native American that helped pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a technique. |
Puritans | The Religious group that wanted to stay in the Church of England and reform it. |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | The name of the colony that the Puritans established. |
Theocracy | A type of government in which religious leaders make the laws. |
William Bradford | The governor of Plymouth, leader of the Pilgrims. |
City on a Hill | The name of a speech by John Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work. |
Thomas Hooker | The founder of the Connecticut Colony. |
Roger Williams | The founder of Rhode Island, he wanted peace with the Native Americans. |
William Bradford | The first colony that established religious freedom. |
Anne Hutchinson | The woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meetings. |
New Netherland | A Dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance, 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" |
First Great Awakening | A religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700s; a revival that led to more religious tolerance and more churches. |
George Whitefield | A famous preacher in the First Great Awakening that traveled all over the colonies |
Jonathan Edwards | The 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. |
The Triangle Trade | A trade network between America, 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 | Was founded as a buffer colony and a place for the poor to work off their debts. |
James Oglethorpe | The founder of the 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 owners. |
Passive Resistance | Ways in which slaves fought back that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, faked illnesses. |
The Navigation Acts | Laws passed by Parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited (Colonists could only trade with Great Britain) |
William Penn | Leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans |
France | A Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with Natives. |
Edward Hicks | The governor of Massachusetts Bay, leader of the Pilgrims |