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English Colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jamestown | an English settlement in Virginia founded in 1607 |
| John Smith | a colonist and leader of Jamestown |
| Pocahontas | a Powhatan Indian who married Jamestown colonist John Rolfe |
| indentured servant | colonists who reachced America by working for free for |
| Bacon's rebellion | an uprising led by Nathaniel Bacon against high taxes |
| Toleration Act of 1649 | an act that made limiting the religious rights of Christians of a crime |
| Olaudah Equiano | a former slave who wrote down his experiences |
| 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, to 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. |
| 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 |
| Quakers (Society of Friends) | a religious group that believed in the equality of men and women before God; supported nonviolence and religious tolerance |
| William Penn | a Quaker leader who founded the Pennsylvania colony |
| 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 1730's and 1740s |
| Jonathan Edwards | important leader of the Great Awakening; from Massachusetts |
| Enlightenment | movement during the 1700s that spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society |
| John Locke | philosopher who thought that people had natural rights |
| Pontiac | Native American leader who led a rebellion in the Ohio Valley in 1763 |
| salutary neglect | policy in which Britain interfered very little in colonial affairs |
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