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Etash Unit 1 Vocab
Unit 1 Social Studies Vocab - Due 8/31/23
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 | The person that helped Jamestown survive with his leadership. |
| John Rolfe | The person that introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown, made it successful. |
| Indentured Servant | A person that agreed to work for 7-10 years in exchange for free passage to America, given freedom and land at the end of their contract. |
| Powhatan | The group of Native Americans that helped and also fought with the Jamestown settlers. |
| Pocahontas | The daughter of a Native American chief that helped Jamestown by providing food. |
| House of Burgesse | The first representative government in North America, located in Virginia colony. |
| Separatists | Also called the Pilgrims, they wanted to break from the Church of England. |
| Plymouth | The name of the colony that the Separatists established for religious freedom. |
| Mayflower Compact | The government of the pilgrims that set up majority rule in the colony. |
| Squanto | The Native Americans 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. |
| Massachusetts Bay | The name of the colony that the Puritans established. |
| Theocracy | The type of government in which religious leaders make the laws. |
| John Winthrop | The governor of Massachusetts Bay, leader of the Puritans. |
| William Bradford | The governor of Plymouth, leader of the Pilgrims. |
| City on a hill | The name of a speech given 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, they wanted peace with Native Americans. |
| Rhode Island | The first colony that established religious freedom. |
| Anne Hutchinson | The woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay be holding her own church meetings. |
| New Netherland | The Dutch colony that would become New York, it encouraged tolerance. |
| Quakers | The religious group that settles in Pennsylvania and believed in equality between men and women, that slavery was evil, and they they could experience God through an "Inner Light". |
| First Great Awakening | The religious movement that swept the colonies in the early 1700s; a revival that led to more religious tolerance and more churches. |
| George Whitefield | The famous preacher in the First Great Awakening that traveled all over the colonies |
| Johnathan 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 the Americas. |
| 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 off their debts. |
| Debtor | A person that owes money to another person. |
| James Oglethorpe | The founder of Georgia Colony. |
| Cash Crops | Crops that are sold to make profits in a global market. |
| Overt Resistance | The ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion against their owners. |
| Passive Resistance | The 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 (colonies could only trade with Great Britain). |
| William Penn | The leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans. |
| France | The Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with Natives. |