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PJ rapello Unit #1
due 8/31 by midnight - Unit 1 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jamestown | the first successful and permanent English colony in North America |
| Powhatan | A group of investors who share the profits and losses of a company |
| Person that made Jamestown survive with his leadership | |
| John Rolfe | A person who introduced tobacco growing , in Jamestown made it successful |
| Indentured servant | A person who agrees to work 7-10 years in exchange for free passage to America, given freedom and lad at the end of their contract |
| Powhatan | Group of Native Americans who helped and fought with Jamestown settlers |
| Pocahontas | daughter of the native american chief who helped teach Americans. |
| The house of Burgess | First representative government in North America, located in Virgin colony |
| Also called the pilgrims, wanted to break from the church of England | |
| Plymouth | Name of the colony that separatists established for religious freedom |
| Representative | government of the pilgrims that set up majority rule in their economy |
| Squanto | native american that helped pilgrims by showing the how to grow food using fish as a technique |
| Religious group that wanted to stay in the church of England and reform it | |
| the name of the colony puritans established | |
| type of government in which religious leaders make the laws | |
| governor of Massachusetts bay, leader of the puritans | |
| governor of Plymouth, leader of the pilgrims | |
| name of a speech given by john Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work | |
| founder of the Connecticut colony | |
| The founder of Rhode island, wanted peace with the natives | |
| the first colony that established religious freedom | |
| Women that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts bay, by holding her own church meetings | |
| Dutch colony that would become new York, encouraged tolerance | |
| religious group that settled Pennsylvania and believed in equality between men and women, that slavery was evil, and that people could experience god through their "inner light" | |
| religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700's; a revival that led to more religious tolerance and churches | |
| Famous preacher in the first Greek awakening that traveled throughout the colonies | |
| First Greek awakening preacher who preached the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" | |
| the journey the slaves took from Africa to america | |
| A network of trading between america, Europe and Africa |
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