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Unit 1 Vocabulary
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 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 |