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Colonies Vocab Words
Spanish,french and English colonies vocabulary.
Term | Definition |
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Jamestown | the first successful and permanent English colony |
Joint stock company | group of investors that share the profits and losses of a company |
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 there contract |
Powhatan | group of Native Americans that helped and also fought with Jamestown settlers |
Pocahontas | daughter of a Native American 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 |
Squanto | native american that helped piligrams 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 laws |
John Winthdrop | governor of mass bay,leader of puritans |
William Bradford | Governor of Plymouth,leader of pilgrims |
City on Hill | name of speech given by John Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work |
Thomas Hooker | founder of Connecticut colony |
Roger Williams | founder of Rhode Island,wanted peace with Native American |
Rhode Island | the first colony that established religious freedom |
Anne Hutchinson | women 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 Pennsylvania |
Quakers | believed In equality between men and women,slavery was evil, and they could experience God went 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 who preached the sermon Sinners In the Hands of an Angry God |
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 Americans |
Triangular Trade | a network of trading between the Americas,Europe and Africa exchanging raw materials,manufactured goods and slaves |
Mercantillism | the economic system In which a mother country sends manufactured goods In exchange for raw materials |
Georgia | founded as a buffer colony and a place for the poor to work of their debts |
Debtor | a person who owes money to another |
James Oglethorpe | founder of Georgia's colony |
Cash Crops | crops that are sold to make profits in a global market |
Overt | ways In other slaves fought back that were obvious;they ran away or led a rebellion against their owners |
Passive | ways slaves resisted 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 |
France | country In Europe that colonized Canada and the 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 |