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ss quest 1
vocab terms for quest on 10/23
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Joint Stock Company | when you have investors who buys shares of a business in order to receive a percentage of the profits |
| Jamestown | capital of Virginia |
| Tobacco | a cash crop grown in the middle colonies |
| Headright | when you are granted free land |
| House of Burgesses | one of the first representative governments |
| Plymouth Rock | where the Pilgrims lived |
| Mayflower | a boat that was used on Christopher Colombus' journey to America |
| Mayflower Compact | a set of laws written by the Pilgirms |
| William Bradford | Pilgrim leader |
| Thanksgiving | when the Pilgrims had dinner with the Native Americans to celebrate their landing in the New World |
| John Winthrop | strict colonial leader who governed Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Religious persecution | when people were killed because of their religion |
| New Netherlands | colony of Netherlands |
| Peter Stuyvesant | he gave up his colony to Britain because he didn't want his colonists to die |
| Duke of York | founder of New York |
| New York and its diverse population | since New York had religious freedom, everyone of every religion lived there, leading to its diverse population |
| William Penn | founder of Pennsylvania |
| Pacifists | people who don't believe in war |
| Quakers | a Catholic group in Pennsylvania, who were Pacifists |
| Delaware and its relation to Pennsylvania | Delaware was first land in Pennsylvania, but people were granted permission to make it a colony |
| Lord Baltimore | George Calvert, who was the founder of Maryland |
| Catholics and Maryland | Maryland was a colony created for Catholics to worship freely |
| Mason-Dixon line | the line separating Pennsylvania and Maryland |
| Religious toleration | where you can follow any religion freely in certain places |
| Charleston | capital of South Carolina |
| Rice / Indigo | Cash crops |
| James Olglethorpe | founder of Georgia |
| Debtors | people who owe money |
| Enlightenment | an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas |
| Benjamin Franklin | a founding father who believed in Enlightenemnt |
| John Peter Zenger | a printer who got arrested for charges of libel, and later changed freedom of criticizing government |
| King Philip's War | when New England colonies went to war with the Wampanong because King Philip wanted colonists to stop taking Indian land |
| Bacon's rebellion | Bacon wanted to expand Virginia west, but was told no, so him and his army attacked Jamestown and almost overthrew the government, but failed |
| Triangular trade | nickname for the trade between Europe, Africa, and the New World |
| Middle passage | part of the triangular trade when slaves came to America |
| Navigation Acts | when England made laws to enforce their policy of mercantilism |
| imports | goods that come into an area |
| exports | goods that leave an area |
| mercantilism | the economic theory where mother countries want to make money by taking advantage of their colonies |
| Subsistence farming | when you produce just enough food for your families needs |
| Breadbasket colonies | the Middle colonies, which produced a lot of grain to make bread |
| Plantations | large farms with a lot of slaves |
| Cash crops | crops that could be sold for a profit |
| Slave codes | strict rules to keep control over slaves |
| Charter colonies | settlers had rights and some self-government |
| Proprietary colonies | individuals or groups owned the colony and were free to operate as they wished |
| Royal colonies | when colonies were ruled by the King of Britian |
| Pocahontas | helped unite the Native Americans and the residents of Jamestown by saving John Smith's life |
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madsholland