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Unit 1 Vocab
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 colonized Canada and the Mississippi River Valley |
| Spain | county 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 | a 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 | a 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 |
| 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 |
| Cash Crops | crops that are sold to make profits in a global market |
| Middle Passage | the journey slave 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 owner |
| Passive | ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down word, broke equipment, faked illnesses |
| Separatists | Also called the Pilgrims, wanted to bead from the Church of England |
| Plymouth | Name of the colony that the Separatists(Pilgrims) established for religious freedom |
| Mayflower Compact | government of the Pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony |
| Squanto | Native American htat 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 |
| 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 the 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 |
| 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, manufactured goods and slaves |
| Mercantilism | the economic system in which a mother country sends manufactured goods to its Colonies in exchange for raw materials |
| Navigation Acts | Laws passed by Parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited |
| New Netherlands | Dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance |
| Peter Stuyvesant | Dutch governor of New Netherlands that handed out over to the English without a battle |
| Quakers | religious group that settled Pennsylvania |
| Quakers | believed in equality between men and women, slavery was evil, and they could experience God through "Inner Light" |
| William Penn | leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans |
| First Great Awakening | religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700s |
| First Great Awakening | Revival theater 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 |