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Aubrey B Unit #1
Unit 1 words- Due 8/31 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. |
Caption John Smith | Person that helped Jamestown survive with his leadership. |
John Rolfe | The person that introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown, made it successful. |
indentured servants | 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. |
Anglo- Powhatan | Group of Native Americans that helped and also fought with the Jamestown settlers. |
Chief Powhatan | Daughter of a Native American chief that helped Jamestown by providing food. |
Jamestown, VA | First representative government in North America, located in Virginia colony. |
separatists | Also called the Pilgrims, wanted to break from the Church of England. |
Plymouth Colony | Name of the colony that the separatist established for religious freedom. |
The townsmen | Government of the Pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony. |
Squanto | Native Americans that helped pilgrims bu 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. |
Massachusetts Bay Colony | The name of the colony the Puritans established. |
Theocracy | Type of government in which religious leaders make laws. |
John Winthrop | Governor of Massachusetts Bay, leader of the Puritans. |
William Bradford | Governor of Plymouth, leader of the Pilgrims. |
A Modell of Christian 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. |
Roger Williams | The founder of Rhode Island, wanted peace with Native Americans. |
Rhode Island | The first colony that established religious freedom. |
Anne Hutchinson | women that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meetings. |
Colonial Delaware | Dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance 24. 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 | Religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700 s; 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. |
The 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. |
Debtors in Georgia | Founded 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 Mercantilism | Founder of Georgia colony. |
Cash Crops | Crops that are sold to make profits in a global market. |
Slave Resistance/ Flight | Ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion against their owners. |
Passive retsants | Ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, faked illnesses. |
The Navigation Acts | Laws passed by Parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited. (Colonies could only trade with Great Britain.) |
Edward Hicks | Leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans. |
The French | Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with Natives; |
overt | Ways slaves rebelled that where ovious. |