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Us history module 3
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| indentured servants | colonists Who reached America by working for free for other people who had paid for their Journeys |
| Bacon's Rebellion | an uprising led by Nathanial Bacon against high taxes |
| Toleration Act of 1649 | an act that made limiting the religious rights of Christians a crime |
| slave codes | laws to control slaves |
| Pilgrims | a Separatist group that cut all ties with the Church of England and left England to escape persecution |
| Puritans | a Protestant group that wanted to reform, or purify, the church of England |
| immigrants | people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country |
| Mayflower Compact | a legal contract male passengers on the Mayflower signed agreeing to have fair laws to protect the general good |
| Staple crops | crops that are always needed, such as wheat, barley, and oats. |
| town meeting | assembly in which colonists decided issues and made laws |
| English Bill of Rights | act passed in 1689 that reduced the powers of the English Monarch and gave Parliament more Power |
| Triangular trade | system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa |
| Great Awakening | religious movement in the colonies during the 1730s and 1740s |
| Enlightenment | movement during the 1700s that spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society |
| salutary neglect | policy in Which Britain interfered very little in colonial affairs?? |
| John Smith | a colonist and leader of Jamestown |
| Pocahontas | a Powhatan Indian who married Jamestown colonist John Rolfe |
| Olaudah Equiano | a former slave who wrote down his experiences |
| Tisquantum ( squanto) | Patuxet Indian who had lived in Europe and spoke English |
| John Winthrop | leader of Puritans who left England for Massachusetts seeking religious freedom |
| Anne Hutchinson | Puritan woman who disagreed on religious ideas, was tried, and Forced to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Peter stuyvesant | director general who led the New Netherland colony beginning in 1647 |
| William Penn | a Quaker leader who founded the Pennsylvania Colony |
| Quakers | a religious group that believed in the equality of men and women before God; Supported nonviolence and religious tolerance |
| Jonathan Edwards | important leader of the Great Awakening; from Massachusetts |
| John Locke | philosopher who thought that people had natural rights |
| Pontiac | Native American leader who led a rebellion in the Ohio Valley in 1763 |