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Patricia kah unit #1
Unit 1 vocab-Due 8/31 at midnight
Term | Definition |
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Jamestown | The first successful and percent 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 survive with his leadership |
John Rolfe | the person that introduced tobacco going in Jamestown, Made it successful |
Indentured Servant | a person that agrees to work for 7-10 years inexchange for free passage to america, given freedom |
Powhatan | group of native Americans that both helped and fought the Jamestown settlers |
Pocahontas | daughter of native american chief that helped Jamestown by providing food. |
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 Americans that helped pilgrims by showing them hoe to grow food using fish as a technique |
Puritans | a religious group that wanted to stay with 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 create the laws |
John Winthrop | leader 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 Netherlands | Dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance |
Quakers | religious group that settled Pennsylvania and believed in equality between men and women that slavery was evil, and that they could experience God through an “Inner Light” |
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 | 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 |