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Unit 1
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| James Town | The first successful and permanent English colony in North America |
| Joint Stock Company | group of investors that shares the profits and losses of a colony |
| John Smith | The person who helped James Town survive with his leadership |
| John Rolfe | The person who introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown , made it successful |
| Indentured Servant | A person who agrees to work for 7-10 year in exchange for free passage to America, given freedom and land at the end of their contract |
| 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 |
| Puritans | Religious group that wanted to stay in the Church of England and reform it |
| Squanto | Native American that helped pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a technique |
| Massachusetts Bay | the name of the colony the Puritans established |
| Theocracy | type of government in which religious leaders make the laws |
| John Winthrope | governor of Massachusetts Bay, leader of the Puritans |
| william bradford | govener of plymouth leader of the pilgrims |
| city on a Hill | the name of a speach given by John Winthrop that says MAssachusetts will be an example of hard work and religious |
| thomas hooker | founder of Connecticut |
| rodger william | wanted peace with native amaricans |
| rhode islands | first colony to esstablish religious freedom |
| Anne hutchitson | women that challenged the leading of mass. bay by holding her own church meetings |
| new netherlands | dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance |
| Quakers #1 | a religious group that settled in pensylvania |
| Quakers #2 | believed that men and women are equal. and that slaves are evil They could also experience god through an inner light |
| #1 first great awakening | a religious movement that went through the colonies through the 1700s |
| #2 the first great awakenning | spread religious tolerance and more churches opened |
| George white field | FGA preacher that traveled through the colonies |
| Jonathan Edwards | FGA preacher who the serems of sinners in the hands of a angry God |
| Middle Passage | the journey slaves took from africa to america |
| Triangular Trade | A network of trading with America, Europe, Africa, exchanged raw good, slaves, manufactured goods, ect. |
| mercantilisim | the economic sytem in which a mother country sends manufactured goods to its colonies in exchange for raw materials |
| Georgia | founded as 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 | ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion against their owners |
| passive | ways salves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, fake illnesses |
| navigation acts | laws passed by parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefitted |
| separatists | Religious group that wanted to break away from the Church of England |
| Navigation Acts | series of laws that required colonies to only trade with Great Britain |
| France | country in Europe that colonized canada and Mississippi River Valley |
| Spain | country in Europe that founded colonies in South America, Mexico, and the Southwest |
| William Penn | Leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans |
| Spain | Catholic nation, colonized the Americas for gold and to convert Natives to Christianity |
| france | Catholic Nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with Natives |
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