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Addison N. Unit #1
Unit 1 Vocab Due 8/31
Term | Definition |
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Jamestown | The first successful and permanent English colony in North America |
Joint-Stock company | a group of investors that share the profits and losses of a colony |
Captain John Smith | person that helped Jamestown survive with is leadership |
John Rolfe | the person who introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown,made it successful |
indentured servant | a person that agrees to 7-10 years in 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 the Jamestown settlers |
Pocahontas | Daughter of a native american chef that helped James town settlers by providing food |
The House of Burgesses | First representative government in North America, located in Virginia |
Separatists | Also called pilgrims, wanted to break from the church of England |
Plymouth | Name of the colony that the separatists established for religious freedom |
Mayflower Compact | The government of the pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony |
Squanto | Native American that helped the pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using a fish technique |
Puritans | Religious group that wanted to stay in the church of England and reform it |
Massachusetts Bay | The name of the colony that the puritans established |
Theocracy | The type of government that the religious leaders make the decisions |
William Bradford | Governor of Plymouth, leader of the pilgrims |
"City on a Hill" | name of the speech given by John Winthrop that says that Massachusetts will be a example of religious faith an hard work |
John Winthrop | Governor of Massachusetts bay, leader of the puritans |
Thomas Hooker | founder of Connecticut colony |
Rodger Williams | the founder of Rhode Island, wanted peace with native Americans |
Rhode Island | the first colony that established religious freedom |
Anne Hutchinson | The woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay holding her own church meetings |
Quakers | Dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance 4. 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 " |
The Great Awakening | the religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700's; a rival that lead to more religious tolerance and ore churches |
George Whitefield | A 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 an Angry God |
Middle Passage | the journey slaves took from Africa to America |
Triangular trade | A network of trading between the Americas, Europe, and Africa exchanging raw materials , and manufactured goods and slaves |
mercantilism | the economic system in which another country sends manufactured goods to its colonies in exchange for raw materials |
Georgia | funded as a buffer colony and a place for the poor to work off their debts 34. a person that owes money to another |
James Oglethorpe | founder of the Georgia Colony |
cash crops | crops that were sold to make profits in a global market |
Overt Resistance | Ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or ed a rebellion against their owners |
Passive Resistance | Ways hat slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down their work, broke equipment, faked illness |
The Navigation Acts | Laws passed by parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited ( Colonies could only trade with Britain ) |
Edward Hicks | Leader of the Quakers that signed treaty with the native Americans |
France | Catholic nation that colonized America to profit from the fur trade with the Natives |