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Unit 1 Colinies Voca
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| James Town | the first sucessful and permanet english colonyin north america. |
| Joint Stock Company | a group of investors that share the profets and losses of a colony. |
| John smith | a person who helped Jamestown survive with his leader ship. |
| John Rolfe | Person that introduced tabacco growing in Jamestown, made it sucessful. |
| Indentured servant | a person that agrees to work 7-10 years in exchange for free passage to America, given freedom and land at the end of their contract. |
| Powhatan | a group of native Americans that helped Jamestown by providing food. |
| Pocahontas | Daughter of a Native American cheif that helped Jamestown by providing food. |
| House of Burgesses | First representive goverment in North America, Locatated in Virgina colony |
| Separatists | Also called Pilgrims, wanted to break from the church of England. |
| Plymouth | Name of the colony that the separatists establish for religious freedom |
| Mayflower Compact | goverment of the pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony |
| Squanto | Native American htat helped pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a technique |
| Puritians | Religious group that wanted to stay in the Church of England and reform it |
| Massachusetts Bay | The name of the colony the puritians established |
| Theocracy | Type of goverment in which religious leaders make the laws |
| John Winthrop | Govenor of Massachsetts Bay, leader of the puritians |
| William Bradford | Govenor of Plymouth, Leader of the Pilgrams |
| City on a Hill | Name of a speech given by Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work. |
| Thomas Hooker | Founder of the Connecticute 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 chalenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meetings. |
| New Netherland | Dutch colony that would become New York, encourgaged tolerance |
| Quakers | Religious group that settled Pennsylvania |
| Quakers | Belived in equality between men and women, slavery was evil experience God through an " Inner Light " |
| 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 Americans, Eruope and Africa exchanging raw materials, Manufactured goods and slaves |
| merchantilism | the econmical 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 poor to work of their debt |
| Debator | aperson that owes money |
| James Oglethorpe | founder of georgia colony |
| Cash Crops | crops that are sold to make profits in a global market |
| Overt | ways in slaves fought back against slavery that was obivious; they ran away or led a rebellion |
| Passive | ways that slaves resissted slavery that were not obvious ;They slowed down work, Broke equitment |
| Navigation acts | series of laws passed by parliment that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benifited |
| Separist | religious group that wanted to break away from the church of england |
| France | country in europe that colonized canada and Missippi river valley |
| Spain | Catholic nation, that colonized america to profit off the fur trade with natives |
| william penn | leader of the quakers that sighned a treaty with Native americans |
| spain | country in europe that founded colinies in the south america mexico and the southwest |
| france | Catholic Nation that colinized america to phrofit off the fur trade with natives |
| Navigation acts | laws passed by parilment that regulated trade in the colonies so that only england benifitted |
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