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Colonies vocab words
Question | Answer |
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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 |