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unit _one _vocab_ due_ 31st_ of _august _at_ midnight
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 |
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 their contract |
powaten | group of Native Americans that helped and also fought with the Jamestown settlers |
pochahontas | 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 |
sepratist | Also called the Pilgrims, wanted to break from the Church of England |
pylomouth colony | Name of the colony that the Separatists established for religious freedom |
the townsmen | 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 |
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 |
model of christan charity | 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 |
anne huthinsion | the founder of Rhode Island, wanted peace with Native Americans |
rhode island | the first colony that estalished reliogus freedom |