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Unit 1 Colonies Voc
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 this 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 food |
| House of Burgesses | first representative government in north America, located in Virginia colony |
| Separatists | Also called the Pilgrims, wanted to break free from the Church of england |
| Plymouth | Name of the colony that Separatists established for religious freedom |
| Mayflower Compact | government of the Pilgrims that helped set up majority rule in their colony |
| Squanto | Native American that helped pilgrims by 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 | the name of the colony the puritans establed |
| 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 | name of a speech given by John Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be and example of religious faith and hard work |
| Thomas Hooker | founder of the Connecticut colony |
| Roger Williams | founder of rhode island, wanted peace with Native Americans |
| Anne Hutchinson | woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meetins |
| New Netherland | Dutch colony that would become new York, encouraged tolerance |
| Quakers | religious group that settled Pennsylvania |
| Quakers | believed in equality between men and women, slavery was evil, and they could experience god through an inner light |
| first great awakening | religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700s |
| first great awakening | 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 sermons 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 americas, europe and agrica 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 | ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or lead a rebellion |
| Passive | ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, faked illnesses |
| Navigation acts | laws passed by Parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only england benefitted |
| separatists | religious group that wated 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 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, coloniezed the americas for gold and to convert natives to christianity |
| france | catholic nation that colonized america to profi off the fur trade with natives |
| Rhode island | the first colony that established religious freedom |