Colonies vocab words
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| Jamestown | The first successful and permanent English colony in North America
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| Joint stock company | Group of investors that share the profits and losses of a colony
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| John Smith | Person that helped Jamestown survive with his leadership
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| John Rolfe | Person that introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown, made it successful
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| Indentured servant | a person that agrees to work for 7-10 years in exchange for free passage to America, given freedom and land at the end of the contract
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| Powhatan | Group of Native Americans that helped and also fought with the Jamestown settlers
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| Pocahontas | Daughter of a Native American chief that helped Jamestown by providing food
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| House of Burgesses | first representative government in North America , Located in Virginia colony
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| Separaties | Also called the Pilgrims, wanted to break from the church of England
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| Plymouth | Name of colony that separatists established for religious freedom
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| squanto | Native American that helped pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a technique
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| Puritans | Religious group that wanted to stay in the church of England and reform it
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| Massachusetts Bay | The name of the colony the Puritans established
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| Theocracy | type of government in which religious leaders make the law
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| John Winthrop | governor of Massachusetts Bay, Leaders of the Pruitans
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| William Bradford | Governor of Plymouth, Leader of pilgrims
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| City on the hill | name of a speech given by john Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work
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| Thomas Hooker | Founder of the Connecticut Colony
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| Roger Williams | founder of Rhode Island, Wanted peace with Native Americans
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| Rhode Island | the first colony that established religious freedom
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| Anne Hutchinson | woman that challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meetings
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| New Neatherland | Dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance
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| Quakers | religious group that settled Pennsylvania
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| Quakers | believed in equality between men and women, slavery was evil, and they could experience God through an "Innerlight
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| First great Awakening | religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700s
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| First great Awakening | Revival that led to more religious tolerance and more churches
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| George Whitefield | Famous preacher in the first Great Awakening that traveled all over the Colonies
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| Jonathan Edwards | First Great Awakening preacher who preached the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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| Middle Passage | The journey slaves took from Africa to the Americas
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| Triangular Trade | a network of trading between the Americas, Europe, and Africa exchanging raw materials, manufactured goods and slaves
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| Mercantilism | the economic system in which a mother country sends manufactured good to its colonies in exchange for raw materials
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| Georgia | founded as a buffer colony and a place for the poor to work off their depts
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| Debtor | a person that owes money to another
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| James Oglethorpe | founder of Georgia colony
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| Cash Crops | crops that are sold to make profits in Global Market
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| Overt | ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion against there owners
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| Passive | ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, faked illnesses
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| Navigation Acts | Laws passed by parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited
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| Separatists | Religious group that wanted to break away from the church of England
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| Navigation Acts | Series of laws that required colonies to only trade wit great Britain
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| Spain | country in Europe that founded colonies in South america, mexico, and the southwest
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| France | country in Europe that colonized Canada and the Mississippi valley
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| William Penn | leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans
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| Spain | Catholic nation, colonized the Americans for gold and to convert Natives to Christianity
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| France | Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with Natives
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