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DAVIS Unit 1 Vocab
due 8/31
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jamestown | The first English colony in North America |
| Joint Stock Company | Group of investors who share cmpany's sucsess |
| John Rolfe | the person that introduced tobacco in Jamestown, made success |
| John Smith | person that helped Jamestown |
| Indentured servant | a person that agrees to work for 7-10 years in exchange for passage to America |
| Powhatan | 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 skill |
| 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 a place of faith and hard work |
| Thomas Hooker | founder of the Connecticut Colony |
| 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 Amsterdam | 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 themselves |
| First Great Awakening | religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700's; led to more religious tolerance |
| 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 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 |
| John Oglethorpe | Founder of Georgia colony |
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