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Jamestown   the successful English colony in North America  
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joint stock company   A joint-stock company consisted of investors who pooled resources to fund an enterprise and, if it was successful, shared the profits.  
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john smith   Captain John Smith was a soldier and writer who is best known for his role in establishing the Virginia colony at Jamestown  
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john rolfe   john rolfe an early settler of North America known for being the first person to cultivate tobacco in Virginia and for marrying Pocahontas.  
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Indentured servant   a form of labor where an individual is under contract to work without a salary to repay an indenture or loan within a certain timeframe.  
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powhatan   Powhatan was responsible for uniting dozens of tribes into a single, powerful alliance. He was the highest authority in the region when English colonists arrived and built Jamestown.  
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house of Burgesses   the House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies  
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sepratists   The Separatists were a group that left England because they wanted to worship freely. (aka The Pilgrims)  
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plymouth   Plymouth Colony was the first permanent English colony in New England  
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mayflower compact   the first government document to be signed in the land that became the United States.  
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Squanto   Squanto helped the English settlers of Plymouth Colony  
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puritans   the Puritans were English Protestants who believed that the Church of England needed reforms.  
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Massachusetts bay   The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement in the 17th century on the east coast of North America.  
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theocracy   a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.  
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john winthrop   the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and a prominent figure among the Puritan founders of New England.  
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William Bradford   Bradford was influential in shaping Plymouth's government and became its governor  
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city on a hill   sermon said by John Winthrop before making the massachusetts bay colony.  
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Thomas hooker   Thomas Hooker founded the Connecticut Colony after a disagreement with the church leadership in Massachusetts.  
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roger williams   Rodger Williams was the founding father of Rhode Island  
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Rhode island   Rhode Island was one of the first permanent colony that offered religous freedom.  
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Anne Hutchinson   Considered one of the earliest American feminists, Anne Hutchinson was a spiritual leader in colonial Massachusetts  
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new netherland   New Netherland was the first Dutch colony in North America.  
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Quakers   a member of the Religious Society of Friends  
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first great awakening   The First Great Awakening was a period when spirituality and religious devotion were revived.  
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george whitefield   George Whitefield, an Anglican minister, was the central figure of the Great Awakening  
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jonathan edwards   Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening and oversaw some of the first revivals  
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middle passage   the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World.  
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triangular trade   a pattern of colonial commerce connecting three regions and crossing the Atlantic Ocean  
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mercantilism   a system in which a country attempts to amass wealth through trade with other countries  
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georgia   Georgia was a buffer colony and a colony for debtors to pay off thier debt.  
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debtor   A debtor is a person who is in debt  
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james oglethorpe   He envisioned a colony that would be settled by debtors and the unemployed.  
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cash crops   Cash crops are agricultural crops that are planted for the purpose of selling on the market or for export to make profit  
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overt resistance   Ways slaves would resist that was obvious like a fight  
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navigation acts   The Navigation Acts declared what England and its colonies could import, or bring in to a place, and export, or send out to other places  
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france   Catholic and they colonized Canada and mississippi river valley  
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spain   Catholic colonized south america, Mexico, and the southwest  
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william penn   English Quaker William Penn founded Pennsylvania when King Charles II granted him a charter for over 45,000 square miles of land.  
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passive resistance   ways slaves would resist slavery that wasn't so obvious like being sick  
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Pocahontas   Pocahontas helped the struggling English settlers in Virginia survive.  
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