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Unit 1 History
key terms and people
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jamestown | The first permanent english settlement in north america |
| John Smith | took control of the colony in 1608. |
| Pocahontas | daughter of Powhaten leader |
| intentured servents | people who receieved a free trip to north america by agreeing to work without pay for a period of years |
| Bacon's Rebellion | When te governer tried to stop him bacon and his followers attacked and burned jamestown |
| Toleration Act of 1649 | this bill made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of christians |
| Olaudah Equiano | a former slave |
| slave codes | laws to control slaves |
| puritans | a protestant group the wanted to reform the Anglican Church |
| pilgrims | were one Separatist group that left England in the early 1600s to escape persecution. |
| immigrants | a person who moves to another country after leaving his or her homeland |
| Mayflower Compact | (1620) a document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government |
| Squanto | Squanto had at one time lived in Europe and spoke English as well. |
| John Winthrop | The Puritans believed that they had made a covenant, or promise, with God to build an ideal Christian community. |
| Peter Stuyveant | director general. led the colony beginning in 1647. |
| Quakers | a society of friends made up one of the largest religious groups in new jersey. |
| William Penn | A quaker founded pennsylvania. |
| Staple Crops | crops that are always needed |
| town meeting | a political meeting at which people make decisions on local issues; used primarily in New England |
| English Bill of Rights | (1689) a shift of political power from the British monarchy to Parliament |
| triangular trade | trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, and Africa |
| Middle Passage | a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies |
| Great Awakening | a religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s |
| Pontiac | Indian Leader; Chief |
| Samual Adams | (1722–1803) American revolutionary who led the agitation that led to the Boston Tea Party; he signed the Declaration of Independence. |
| Committees of Correspondence | committees created by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 1760s to help towns and colonies share information about resisting British laws |
| stamp act 1765 | a law passed by Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newspapers, licenses, and legal documents |
| boston massucre | (1770) an incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people |
| tea act | (1773) a law passed by Parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party |
| boston tea party | (1773) a protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more than 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor |
| intolerable acts | (1774) laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control of the colonies |
| Paleo-Indians | the first Americans who crossed from Asia into North America sometime between 38,000 and 10,000 BC |
| migration | the movement of people from one region to another |
| hunter-gatherers | a person who hunts animals and gathers wild plants to provide for his or her needs |
| enviroments | the climate and landscape that surrounds living things |
| societies | a group of people who live together and share a culture |
| culture | the common values and traditions of a society, such as language, government, and family relationships |
| totems | images of ancestors or animal spirits; often carved onto tall, wooden poles by Native American peoples of the Pacific Northwest |
| Iroquoia League | a political confederation of five northeastern Native American nations of the Seneca, Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga, and Onondaga that made decisions concerning war and peace |
| capital | money or property that is used to earn more money |
| joint-stock companies | a business formed by a group of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses |
| Christopher Columbius | Italin exploror wanted to reach asia but instead foind a america |
| Ferdinand Magellion | he found a passage through South America, now known as the Strait of Magellan, but died during the expedition |
| Northwest Passage | a nonexistent path through North America that early explorers searched for that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean |
| Columbian Exchange | the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa |
| capital | money or property that is used to earn more money |
| joint-stock companies | a business formed by a group of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses |
| christopher columbus | sailed and found america on accedent but is good |
| ferdinand magelan | Portuguese captain of a Spanish fleet |
| northwest passage | a nonexistent path through North America that early explorers searched for that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean |
| comumbian exchange | the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa |
| protestant reformation | a religious movement begun by Martin Luther and others in 1517 to reform the Catholic Church |
| protestants | reformers who protested certain practices of the Catholic Church |
| printing press | a machine that produces printed copies |
| spanish armada | a large Spanish fleet defeated by England in 1588 |
| inflation | increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money |
| charter | an official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony |
| First Continental Congress | a gathering of delegates from throughout the colonies |
| minutemen | American colonial militia members ready to fight at a minute's notice |
| redcoats | British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the American Revolution; so called because of their bright red uniforms |
| second continental congress | (1775) a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and Concord |
| continental army | the army created by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to defend the American colonies from Britain |
| george washington | revolutionary war partiot leader |
| battle of bunker hill | (1775) a Revolutionary War battle in Boston that demonstrated that the colonists could fight well against the British army |
| common sence | a 47-page pamphlet published in January 1776 that urged separation from Great Britain. (published annonomossly) |
| Thomas Paine | (1737–1809) American political philosopher and author, |
| Thomas Jefforson | (1743–1826) American statesman, and member of two Continental Congresses, |
| decloration of independence | (1776) the document written to declare the colonies free from British rule (1776) the document written to declare the colonies free from British rule |
| patriots | American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War |
| loyalists | colonists who sided with Britain in the American Revolution |
| mercenaries | hired foreign soldiers |
| Battle of Trenton | (1776) a Revolutionary War battle in New Jersey in which Patriot forces captured more than 900 Hessian troops |
| Battle of Saratoga | 1777) a Revolutionary War battle in New York that resulted in a major defeat of British troops; marked the Patriots’ greatest victory up to that point in the war |
| Marquis de Lafayette: | french statesmen and officer |
| Bernardo de Gálvez | govener of spanish louisiana (captured key cities) |
| John Paul Jones | (1747–1792) American naval officer famed for bravery, |
| George Rogers Clark | (1752–1818) American Revolutionary soldier and frontier leader |
| Francis Marion | Revolutionary War commander of Marion’s Brigade, |
| Battle of Yorktown | the last major battle of the American Revolution |
| treaty of paris 1783 | a peace agreement that officially ended the Revolutionary War |
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