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Max M. Unit 1 vocab
Unit 1 vocab SS - Max M.
Term | Definition |
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jamestown | The first succesful and permanent english colony in north america |
joint-stock company | group of investors that share the profits and losses of a colony |
Capton John Smith | person that helped jamestown survive with his leadership |
John Rolfe | the person that introduced tabacco growing in jamestown, made it succesful |
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 en dof their contract |
Powhatan | group of natives americans that helped and also fought whith 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 pilgims, wanted to break from the church of england |
Plymouth | Name of the colony that the separatists established fr religous freedom |
Mayflower Compact | government of the pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony |
Squanto | native americans that helped pilgims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a technique |
Puritans | religous 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 witch religous leaders make the laws |
John Winthrop | governer of massachusetts bay, leader of the puritans |
William Bradford | governer of plymouth, leader of the pilgrims |
City On A Hill | name of a speech given by john winthrop that says massachudetts will be an example of religous faith and hard work |
Thomas Hooker | founder of the conneticut colony |
Roger Williams | the founder of rhode island, wanted peace with native americans |
Rhode Island | the first colony that established religous freedom |
Anne Hutchinson | woman that challenged thebleadership 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 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 |
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 owners |
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 (colonies could only trade with Great Britain) |
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 |