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Smartt unit 1
due august 31 at midnight-unit 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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, and made it successful |
| indentured servants | a person that agrees to work for 7-10 year in exchange for free passage to america, and given freedom and land at the end. |
| Powhatan | group of native Americans that helped and also fought with the Jamestown settlers |
| Pocahontas | daughter of a native american chief that helped and also fought with the Jamestown settlers |
| 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 speartists established for religious freedom. |
| mayflower contract | government of the pilgrims that set up majority rule in there colony |
| Squanto | native Americans that helped pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a technique. |
| puritans | religious group that wanted to stay in the church of England and reform it. |
| Massachusetts bay | name of the colony the puritans established |
| Theocracy | type of government in which religious leaders make the law |
| John | governor of Massachusetts Bay, leader of the puritans |
| William Bradford | governor of Plymouth, leader of the Pilgrims |
| city on a hill | Name of speech given by john Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be and example of religious faith and hard. |
| Thomas hooker | Founder of the Connecticut colony |
| Roger Williams | The founder of Rhode island, wanted peace with native Americans |
| Rhode island | first colony that established religious freedom. |
| Anne Hutchinson | women that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts holding her own church meetings |
| New Netherlanders | Dutch colony that would become new York, encouraged tolerance, |
| Quakers | Religious group that settled in Pennsylvanian and believed in equality between men and women |
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