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Maren Unit #1
Due date August 31 at midnight
Term | Definition |
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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 | The 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, and given freedom and land at the end of their 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 |
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 Contract | government of the Pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony |
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 |
Massachusets Bay | name of the colony the puritans established |
Theocracy | type of government in which religious leaders make the law |
John Winthrop | governor of Massachusetts Bay, leader of the Puritans |
William Bradford | governor of Plymouth, leader of the pilgrims |
City on a Hill | Name of a speech given by John Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be and example of religious faith and hard work |
Thomas Hooker | Founder of the Connecticut Colony |
Roger Williams | The founder of Rhode Island, wanted peace with Native Americans |
Rhode Island | first colony that established religious freedom. |
Anne Hutchinson | 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 and believed in equality between men and women, that slavery was evil, and that they could experience God through an “Inner Light” |
The Great Awakening | Religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700s; a 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 |
Middle Passage | The journey slaves took from Africa to the Americas |
Triangular Trade | a network of trading between the Americans, Europe, and Africa exchanging raw materials, manufactured goods, and slaves. |
merchantilism | The economic system in which a mother country sends manufactured goods to its colonies in exchange for raw material |
Georgia | founded as a buffer colony and a place for the poor to work off their debts |
debter | a person that owes money to another |
James Oglethorpe | founder of Georgia colony |
cash crops | crops that are sold to make profits in a global market. |
overt resistance | Ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion against their owners. |
passive resistance | Ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, faked illness. |
The Navigation Acts | Laws passed by Parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited (colonies could only trade with Great Britain). |
Edward Hicks | Leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans. |
French | Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with Natives |