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Unit 1 Colonies Voca
Question | Answer |
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Jamestown | The first successful and permanent English coloney in North America |
Joint stock company | group of investors that share the profits and loses of colonies |
John Smith | person who helped jamestown survive with his leadership |
John Rolfe | person who introduced tobacco in jamestown, made it successful |
indentured servent | a person who agrees to work 7-10 years for free passage to america, given freedom and land at the end of their contract |
powhatan | a group of native americans that helped and also |
Pocahontas | Daughter of an 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 that set up a majorty rule in thier colony |
plymouth compact | government of the pilgrims that sat up a mejorty rule in their colony |
Squanto | Native American that helped pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a techneque |
Puritains | Religious gorup that wanted to stay with the church of england but reform it |
Massachusetts Bay | The name of the colony that the purtins astablished |
Theocracy | The govenment where the religious leader makes all the laws |
John WInthrop | Govenor of Massatchuets, and leader of the purtins |
william Bradfourd | Govneor of Plymouth, and leader of the pilgrims |
city on a hill | name of a speach given by John Winthrop that says Massachuets will be an example of hard work and religious faith |
Thomas hooker | founder of the Connuctuit colony |
Roger Williams | founder of the Rhoade Isand colony, and wanted peace with the natives |
Rhode Island | first colony to establish religious freedom |
Anne Hutcherson | Woman that challenged the leadership 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 in pennsylvania |
Quakers | Believed in equality between men and women, slavery was evil, and they could experience god through the "light" |
First Great Awakening | religious movement that first swept through the colonies in the early 1700s |
First Great Awakening | Revival that led to more religious tolerance and more churches |
george weinfeld | 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, Africa exchanging raw materials, manufactured goods and slaves. |
Mercantilism | the economic system 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 the work off their debts |
Debtor | a person who owes money to somebody else |
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 lead a rebellion against their leaders. |
passive | ways slaves resisted 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 trade with great britian |
france | a country in europe that colonized canada and the mississippi river valley |
spain | a country in europe that founded colonies in south america, mexico, and the southwest |
william peen | leader of the quakers that signed a treaty with the native americans |
spain | catholic nation, colonized the americas for gold and to convert others to the christian religion |
france | a catholic nation that colonized america to profit off the fur trade with the natives |
powhatan | group of natives that helped and also fought with the people of jamestown |