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Smartt unit 1
due august 31 at midnight-unit 1
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, 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 |