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Unit 1 Vocabulary
| 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 his leadership |
| John Rolfe | person that introduces 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. |
| Powhantan | group of Native American chief that helped and also fought with 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 the colony that the Separatist established for religious freedom |
| Mayflower Compact | government of the Pilgrims that set up majority rules 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 | government of Massachusetts Bay, leaders of the Puritans |
| William Bradford | Government of Plymouth, leader of the Pilgrims |
| City in 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 |
| Anne Hutchinson | woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meeting |
| 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 chruches |
| George Whitefield | Famous preacher in the First Great Awakening that traveled all over the colonies |
| Jonathan Edward | First Great Awakening preacher who preached the sermon Sinners in the Hands of 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 exchange raw materials,manufactured goods and slaves |
| Mercantilism | the economic system in which a mother country sens 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 the Mississippi River Valley |
| Spain | country in Europe that founded colonies in South America,Mexico, and Southwest |
| William Penn | leader of the Quackers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans |
| Spain | Catholic nation, colonized the Americas for gold and to convert native to Christianity |
| France | Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with Natives |
| Rhode Island | The first colony that established religious freedom |