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Murray Unit #1
8/31 at midnight- Unit 1 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Jamestown | The first successful and permanent English colony in North America |
Joint Stock Company | A group of investors that share the profits and losses of a colony |
John Smith | The person that helped Jamestown survive with his great leadership |
John Rolfe | The person that introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown and he made it successful |
Indentured Servant | A person that agrees to work for 5-7 years in exchange for a free passage to America and he is given freedom and land at the end of their contract |
Powhatan | A group of Native Americans that helped and also fought with the Jamestown settlers |
Pocahontas | The daughter of a Native American chief that helped Jamestown by providing them with food |
House of Burgesses | The first representative government in North America, located in the Virginia colony |
Separatists | They were also called the Pilgrims, wanted to break from the Church of England |
Plymoth | The name of the colony that the Separatists established for religious freedom |
Mayflower Compact | The government of the Pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony |
Squanto | The Native American that helped the Pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish in the ground as a technique |
Puritans | The Religious group that wanted to stay in the Church of England but reform it |
Massachusetts Bay Colony | The name of the colony the Puritans established |
Theocracy | The type of government where the religious leaders make the laws |
John Winthrop | The governor of Massachusetts Bay and the leader of the Puritans |
William Bradford | The governor of Plymouth and the leader of the Pilgrims |
City on a Hill | The name of a speech given by John Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work |
Thomas Hooker | The founder of the Connecticut Colony |
Roger Williams | The founder of Rhode Island who wanted peace with Native Americans |
Rhode Island | The first colony that established religious freedom |
Anne Hutchinson | The woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meetings |
New Netherlands | The 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” |
The First Great Awakening | The religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700's. It was a revival that led to more religious tolerance and more churches. |
George Whitefeild | A famous preacher in the First Great Awakening that traveled all over the colonies |
Johnathan Edwards | A First Great Awakening preacher who preached the sermon about sinners in the hands of an angry God |
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 |
Mercantilism | The economic system in which a mother country sends manufactured goods to its colonies in exchange for raw materials |
Georgia | It was founded as a buffer colony and a place for the poor to work off their debts |
Debtor | A person that owes money to another person |
James Oglethorpe | The founder of the Georgia colony |
Cash Crops | The crops that are sold to make profits in a global market |
Overt Resistance | The ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion against their owners |
Passive Resistance | The ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, faked illnesses |
The Navigation Acts | The laws passed by Parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited (colonies could only trade with Great Britain) |
William Penn | The leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans |
France | The Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with the Native Americans |