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8/31 at midnight-untit 1 vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Jamestown | the first successful and permenant English colony in North America |
joint stock company | Group of investigators 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 |
indentured servant | 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 there contract |
powhatan | group of native americans that fought and also fought with the Jamestown settlers |
Pocahantas | daughter of a Native American cheif that helped Jamestown by providing food |
The 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 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 |
Puritans | Religious 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 religious leaders make the laws |
John Winthrop | governor of Massachusetts Bay, leader of the Puritans |
William Bradford | Governor 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 religious faith and hard work |
Thomas Hooker | founder of the Connecticut Colony |
Roger Williams | the founder of Rhode Island, wanted peace with Native Americans |
Rhode island | the first colony that established religious freedom |
Anne Hutchinson | woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meetings |
New Netherland | Dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance |
First 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 |
Jonathan Edwards | First Great Awakening preacher who preached the sermon 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 | founded as a buffer colony and a place for the poor to work off their debts |
Debtor | a person that owes money to another |
James Oglethorpe | founder of Georgia colony |
Cash crops | 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 against their owners |
passive resistance | ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, faked illnesses |
Navigation acts | Laws passed by parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited(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; |