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Unit 1 Colonies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| France | Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with Natives. |
| Spain | Catholic nation, colonized the Americas for gold and to convert Natives to Christianity. |
| France | Country in Europe that founded colonies in South America, Mexico, and the Southwest. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| John Rolfe | Person that introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown, and made it successful. |
| Indentured servant | A person that agrees to work for 7-10 years in exchange for free passage to America, given freedom. |
| House of Burgesses | First representative government in North America, located in Virginia colony |
| 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. |
| Middle Passage | The journey slaves took from Africa to the Americas. |
| 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. |
| Separatists | Also called the Pilgrims, wanted to break free from the Church of England. |
| Plymouth | Name of the colony that the Separatists established for religious freedom |
| Mayflower Compact | Government of the Pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony. |
| Squanto | Native American that helped Pilgrims set up majority rule in their colony. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| none Hutchinson | Woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meetings. |
| Theocracy | Type of government in which religious leaders make the laws. |
| Salem Witch Trials | Hysteria that led to dozens of people being accused of a crime with no evidence. |
| Triangular trade | A network of trading between the Americans, Europe, and Africa exchanging raw materials. |
| Navigation Acts | Laws passed by Parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited. |
| New Netherland | Dutch colony that that would become New York, encouraged tolerance. |
| Peter Stuyvesant | Dutch governor of New Netherland that handed it over to the English without a battle. |
| Quakers | Religious group that settled in Pennsylvania. |
| Quakers | Believed in equality between men and women, slavery was evil, and could experience God through an "Inner Light" |
| William Penn | Leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with Native Americans |
| First Great Awakening | Religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700's. |
| 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. |