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sydney Unit vocab #1
Unit 1 vocab for socal studies-due 8/31
Term | Definition |
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Jamestown | the first successful and permanent English colony in North America |
joint stalk company | group of investors that share the profits and losses of a colony |
John Rolfe | the person that introduced tobacco growing in jamestown,made it successful |
John Smith | person that helped jamestown survive with his leadership |
indentured servants | 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 |
powahatans | group of native Americans that helped and also fought with the Jamestown, made it successful. |
Chief Powhatan | daughter of a Native american chief that helped jamestown by providing food |
The House of Burgesses | first representative government in North America, located in Virginia located |
separtatists | Also called the pilgrims, wanted to break from the church of England |
the townsmen | government of the pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony |
puriatans | religious group that wanted to stay in the church of England and reform it |
Massachusetts Bay Colony | the name of the colony the puritans established |
theocracy | type of government in which religious leaders make the rules |
john winthrop | governor of Massachusetts Bay,leader of the puritans |
william bradford | Governor of Plymouth, leader of the pilgrims |
A Model of Christian Charity | name a speech given by john Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work |
thomas hooker | founder of the conneticuit colony |
roger williams | the founder of Rhode island, wanted peace with native Americans |
rhode island | the first colony that established religious freedom |
Anne hutchison | women that challeneged he leadership of Massachuestts bay by holding her own church meetings |
dutch colony that would become new york encouraged tolerance 24. religious group that settled Pennesylvania and believed in equality between men and women that slavery was evil and that they could experience god through ïnner light¨ | |
the first great awakening | religious movement that swept through the clonies in the early 1700s:a revival that led to more religious tolerance and freedom |
george whitefield | famous preacher n 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 |
the middle passage | the journey slaves took from Africa to the Americas |
triangular trade | a network of trading between the Americans,Europe and Africa exchanging raw materials, manufactured goods and slaves |
merchantilism | 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 off their debts 34. a person that owes money to another |
James Edward Oglethorpe | founder of georgia colony |
cash crops | crops that are sold to make profits in a global market |
theft, arson, sabotage of crops, and running away | ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion against their owners |
slave resistance | ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious ; they slowed down work,broke equipement, faked illnesses |
the navigation acts | laws passed by parliment that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited |
edward hicks | leader of the quakers that signed a treaty with the native americans |
the french empire | catholic nation that colonized america to profit off the fur trade with natives |