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Eleanor Rome Unit#1
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jamestown | the first successful and permanent English colony in North America |
| Quakers | group of investors that share the profits and losses of a colony |
| Thomas Hooker | person that helped Jamestown survive with his leadership |
| John Rolfe, | the 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 |
| Puritans | 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 |
| Theocracy | Also called the Pilgrims, wanted to break from the Church of England |
| Mayflower Compact | Name of the colony that the Separatists established for religious freedom |
| Squanto | government of the Pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony |
| , Middle Passage | Native American that helped pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a technique |
| George Whitefield, | Religious group that wanted to stay in the Church of England and reform it |
| City On A Hill, | the name of the colony the Puritans established |
| Anne Hutchinson | type of government in which religious leaders make the laws |
| William Bradford, | governor of Massachusetts Bay, leader of the Puritans |
| Massachusetts Bay | Governor of Plymouth, leader of the Pilgrims |
| First Great Awakening | name of a speech given by John Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work |
| William Penn, | founder of the Connecticut Colony |
| John Winthrop, | the founder of Rhode Island, wanted peace with Native Americans |
| House of Burgesses | the first colony that established religious freedom |
| , Plymouth | woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meetings |
| , Debtor, | Dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance |
| Mercantilism, | . 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” |
| joint stock company, | . religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700s; a revival that led to more religious tolerance and more churches |
| Navigation Acts, | . Famous preacher in the First Great Awakening that traveled all over the colonies |
| James Oglethorpe | . First Great Awakening preacher who preached the sermon Sinners in the Hands ofan Angry God |
| Powhatan | the journey slaves took from Africa to the Americas |
| Thomas Hooker | a network of trading between the Americans, Europe and Africa exchanging raw materials, manufactured goods and slaves |
| Rhode Island, | 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 |
| , Triangular Trade, | a person that owes money to another |
| Roger Williams | . founder of Georgia colony |
| Cash Crops | crops that are sold to make profits in a global market |
| Passive Resistance | ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion against their owners |
| Jonathan Edwards, | ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, faked illnesses |
| Separatists | . Laws passed by Parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited (colonies could only trade with Great Britain) |
| New Netherland | . leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans |
| Overt Resistance | Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with Natives |
| John Winthrop, |
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