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unit 1 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jamestown | The first successful and permanent English colony in North America |
| Joint Stock Company | group investors that share the profits and losses of a colony |
| John smith | person that helped Jamestown survive with his leadership |
| John Rolfe | person that introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown, made it successful |
| Indentured servant | a person that agrees to work for 7-10 years i exchange for free passage to America, given freedom and land at the end of their contract |
| Powhatan | group of Native Americans that helped and also fought with the Jamestown settlers |
| Pocanhontas | Daughter of Native American chief that helped Jamestwon |
| House of Burguesses | 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 Separatists established for religious freedom |
| Mayflower compact | government of the pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony |
| Saquanto | 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 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 speech given by John Winthrop says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work |
| Thomas hooker | founder of Connecticut Colony |
| Roger Williams | founder of Rhode island, wanted peace with the Native Americans |
| 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 |
| Quakers | religious group that settled in Pennsylvania |
| Quakers | bealived in equality between men and Women, slavery was evil, and they could experience God through ¨Inner Light |
| First Great Awakening | religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700s |
| First Great Awakening | 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 |
| Johnathan Edwards | First Great Awakening preacher who preached the sermon ´´sinners´' in the ´´hands of my 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 material, 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 |
| Passive | ways in which slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, faked illnesses |
| Overt | ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion against their owners |
| Navigation Acts | Laws passed by parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited |
| France | country in Europe that colonized Canada and the Mississippi River Valley |
| Spain | country in Europe that founded colonies in South America, Mexico, and the southwest |
| William Penn | leader of Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans |
| Spain | Catholic nation, colonized the Americans for gold and to convert Natives to Christianity |
| France | Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with Natives |
| Rhode Island | the first colony that established religious freedom |
| Separatists | Religious group that wanted to break away from the church of England |