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Anna Claire Unit #1
due 8/31 at midnight - Unit 1 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Jamestown | The first sucsessful 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 survived with his leardership |
John Rolfe | The person that introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown, made it successful |
Indentured Servent | 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 |
Pochahontas | 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 |
Searatists | Also called the Pilgrims, wanted to break from the Church of England |
Polymouth | 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 pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a technique |
Purtans | Religious group that wanted to stay in the Church of England and reform it |
Massachusetts Bay | The name of the colony the Puritans establish |
Theorcracy | Type of government in which religious leaders make the laws |
William Bradford | Governor of Massachusetts Bay, leader of the Puritans |
John Winthrop | Governor of Plymouth, leader of the Pilgrims |
City On a Hill | Name of speech given by John Winthrop that says Mssachusetts will be an exsample of religous faith and hard work |
Roger Williams | Founder of connecticut colony |
Rhode Island | The founder of Rode Island, wanted peace with the Native Americans |
New Netherland | The first colony tht established religious freedom |
Anne Hutchinson | Woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meetings |
First Great Awakining | Dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance 24. religious group that settled Pennsylvania and believed in equality between men and women, that slavery was evil, and that they could experience God through an “Inner Light” |
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 |
Jonathon Edwards | First greek awaking preacher who preached who preached the sermen ¨Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God¨ |
Middle Passage | The journey slaves took from Afercia to the Americas |
The triangular Trade | A network of trading between the Americans, Europe and Africa exchanging raw materials, manufactured goods and slaves |
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 34. a person that owes money to another |
James Oglethorpe | Founder of Georgia colony |
Cash Crop | 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 aginst their owners |
Passive Resistance | Ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equitment, faked illnesses |
Navigation Acts | Laws passed by Parliment that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benifited (colonies could only trade with Great Britain) |
William Penn | Leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans |
France | Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with Natives |