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Colonies vocab words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 | Person that helped Jamestown survive with his leadership |
| John Rolfe | Person that introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown, made it successful |
| 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 end of the 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 |
| Separaties | Also called the Pilgrims, wanted to break from the church of England |
| Plymouth | Name of colony that separatists established for religious freedom |
| squanto | Native American that helped pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a technique |
| 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 law |
| John Winthrop | governor of Massachusetts Bay, Leaders of the Pruitans |
| William Bradford | Governor of Plymouth, Leader of pilgrims |
| City on the hill | name of a speech given by john Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work |
| Thomas Hooker | Founder of the Connecticut Colony |
| Roger Williams | founder of Rhode Island, Wanted peace with Native Americans |
| 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 Neatherland | Dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance |
| Quakers | religious group that settled Pennsylvania |
| Quakers | believed in equality between men and women, slavery was evil, and they could experience God through an "Innerlight |
| First great Awakening | religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700s |
| First great Awakening | 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 Americas, Europe, and Africa exchanging raw materials, manufactured goods and slaves |
| Mercantilism | the economic system in which a mother country sends manufactured good to its colonies in exchange for raw materials |
| Georgia | founded as a buffer colony and a place for the poor to work off their depts |
| Debtor | a person that owes money to another |
| James Oglethorpe | founder of Georgia colony |
| Cash Crops | crops that are sold to make profits in Global Market |
| Overt | ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion against there owners |
| Passive | 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 |
| Separatists | Religious group that wanted to break away from the church of England |
| Navigation Acts | Series of laws that required colonies to only trade wit great Britain |
| Spain | country in Europe that founded colonies in South america, mexico, and the southwest |
| France | country in Europe that colonized Canada and the Mississippi valley |
| William Penn | leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans |
| Spain | Catholic nation, colonized the Americans for gold and to convert Natives to Christianity |
| France | Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with Natives |