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Alma Akbari #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 | 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 |
Indenture 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 |
Powhatan | group of Native Americans that helped and also fought with the Jamestown settlers |
Pocahontas | Daughter of a Native Americans 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 |
government of the Pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony | |
Native American that helped pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a technique | |
Religious group that wanted to stay in the Church of England and reform it | |
the name of the colony the Puritans established | |
type of government in which religious leaders make the laws | |
governor of Massachusetts Bay, leader of the Puritans | |
name of a speech given by John Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work | |
founder of the Connecticut Colony | |
the founder of Rhode Island, wanted peace with Native Americans | |
the first colony that established religious freedom | |
woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meeting | |
Dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance 24 and group between men and women | |
religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700s; a revival that led to more religious tolerance and more churches | |
Famous preacher in the First Great Awakening that traveled all over the colonies | |
First Great Awakening preacher who preached the sermon Sinners in the Angry God | |
the journey slaves took from Africa to the Americas | |
a network of trading between the Americans, Europe and Africa exchanging raw materials, manufactured goods and slaves | |
the economic system in which a mother country sends manufactured goods to its colonies in exchange for raw materials | |
founded as a buffer colony and a place for the poor to work off their debts 34. a person that owes money to another | |
founder of Georgia colony | |
crops that are sold to make profits in a global market |