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unit 1 colonies Voc
Question | Answer |
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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 | 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. |
Powhatan | group of Native Americans that helped and also fought with the Jamestown settlers. |
Pocahontas | Daughter of a Native American chief that helped Jamestown by providing them food. |
House of Burgesses | First representative government in North America, located in Virginia colony. |
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 contract | 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. |
Puritans | Religious group that wanted to stay in the church of England and reform it |
Massachusetts Bay | the names 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 | named of speech given by John Winthrop says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work. |
Tomas Hooker | founder of the Connecticut colony. |
Roger Williams | founder of Rhode Island and wanted peace with Native Americans |
Rhode Island | the first island, wanted peace with 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 | believed in equality between men and women, slavery was evil, and they could experience God though an "inner glow". |
The first great Awakening | religious movement that swept though the colonies in the early 1700s. |
First Great Awakening | Revival that lead to more religious tolerance and more churches. |
George Whitefield | famous preacher in the first great awakening who preached the sermon sinners in the hands of angry god . |
Jonathan Edwards | First Great awakening preacher who preached the sermon sinners in the hands of an angry god. |
Middle Passage | the journey slaves 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 of raw materials. |
Georgia | founded as a buffer colony and a place for poor work off their debts. |
Debtor | a person that owes money to another. |
James Oglethorpe | Founder of Georgia colony. |
Cash crop | Crops that are sold in a global market. |
Overt | Ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led rebellion against their owners. |
Passive | Ways slaves resisted that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, faked illnesses. |
Navigation Acts | Laws passes by Parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited |
Separatists | Religious group that wanted to break away from the church of England. |
Navigation Acts | Series of laws that required colonies to only trade with Great Britain. |
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 the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans. |
Spain | Catholic nation, colonized the Americas for gold and to convert Natives to Christianity. |
France | Catholic nation that colonized America off the fur trade with Natives. |