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Coco T. Unit #1
Due- 8/31/23
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. |
Debtor | A person that agrees to work for 7-10 in exchange for free passage to America, given freedom and land at the end of their contract. |
Anglo-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 religous freedom. |
The 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. |
Pilgrims | Religous group that wanted to stay in the Church of England and reform it. |
Massachusetts Bay | The name of the colony the Puritans established. |
Theocracy | Type of government in which religous leaders make the laws |
John Winthrop | Governor of Massachusetts Bay, leader of the Puritans. |
William Bradford | Govenor of Plymouth, leader of the Pilgrims. |
City On A Hill | Name of a speech given by John Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of religous faith and hard work. |
Thomas Hooker | Founder of the Connecticut Colony. |
Roger Williams | The founder of Rhode Island, wanted peace with Native Americans. |