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Unit 1 Vocab
Unit 1 Colonies Vocab
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 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 colony that the Separatists established for religious freedom. |
Mayflower Compact | Government of Pilgrims that 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 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 | 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 | Founder of Rhode Island, wanted peace with Native Americans. |
Rhode Island | The first colony that established religious freedom. |
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 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 sermon "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 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. |
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 led a rebellion against their owners. |
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 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 to profit off the fur trade with Natives. |