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Rhea D Unit #1
Date due 8/31 @12:00 am- Unit 1 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jamestown | the first successful and permanent English colony in North America |
| joint-stock company | group of inventors that share the profits and losses of a colony |
| John Smith | person that helped jamedtown survive with his leadership |
| John Rolfe | the person that introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown, made it successful |
| indentured servants | 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 their contract |
| Powhatan | group of native americans that helped and also fought with the jamestown settlers |
| Pocahontas | daughter of the native american chief that helped jamestown by providing food |
| House Burgesses | first representative government in north american located in virginia colony |
| Seperatists | also called the pilgrims, wanted to break from the church of england |
| New E | name of the colony that the sepraratists established for religous freedom |
| Mayflower Compact | 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 |
| Purtians | religous group that wanted to stay in the church of england and reform it |
| Massachusetts | the name of the colony the purtians established |
| Theocracy | type of government in which religous leaders make the laws |
| William Bradford | governer of massachusetts bay, leader of the pilgrims |
| John Winthrop | governer of plymouth, leader of the pilgrims |
| City on a hill | name of a speech given by john winthrop that says massachusetts will be can example of religous faith and hard work |
| Thomas Hooker | founder of the connecticut colony |
| Roger Williams | the founder of rhode island, wanted peace with the native americans. |
| Rhode Island | the first colony that established religous freedom |
| Anne Hutchinson | woman that challenged the leadership of massachusetts bay by holding her own church meeting |
| New Netherland | dutch colony that would become new took encouraged tolerance |
| First Great Awakening | religous movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700s; a revival that led to more religous tolerance and more churches |
| George Whitefield | famous preacher in the first great awakening that traveled all over the colonies |
| Jonathan Edwards | first great awakening pracher who preached the sermon sinnners in the hads of an angry god |
| The Middle Passage | the journey slaves took from africa to the americas |
| Triangular Trade | a network trading between the americans, europe, and africa exchanging raw materials, manufactured goods and slaves |
| Quackers | religous group that settled pennsylvania and believed in equality between men and women |
| Mercantilism | the economic 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 the poor to work off their debts |
| debtor | A person that owes money to another |
| James Oglethorpe | founder of the georgia colony |
| cash crops | crops that are sold to make profits in a global market |
| Passive Resistance | ways in which slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion againt their owners |
| Overt Resistance | ways slaves resisted slaver that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, faked illnesses |
| Navgation Acts | laws passed by parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only england benefited (Colonies could only trade with great britain) |
| William Penn | leader of the quackers that signed a treaty with the native americans |
| France | catholic nation that colonized america profit off the fur trade with natives |
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