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Term | Definition |
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Jamestown | The first successful and permanent English colony in North America |
joint stock company | group of investors that share the profits and losses of a colony |
John smith | person that helped Jamestown survive with his leadership |
John rolfe | the person that introduced tobacco growing in Jamestown, made it successful |
indentured severnt | 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 their contract |
powhatan | group of Native Americans that helped and also fought with Jamestown settlers |
pocahontas | daughter of a native american chief that helped Jamestown by providing food |
house of burgesses | first representative government in north america, located in Virginia colony |
separatists | also called the pilgrims, wanted to break from the church of England |
Plymouth | name of the colony that separatists established for religious freedom |
the mayflower compact | government of the pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony |
Squanto | Native american that help pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a technique |
puritans | religious group that wanted to stay in the church of England and reform it |
Massachusetts bay | the name of the colony the puritans established |
theocracy | type of government in which religious leaders make the laws |
John Winthrop | governor of Massachusetts bay, leader of the puritans |
William Bradford | governor of Plymouth, leader of the pilgrims |
City on a hill | name of speech given by john Winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work |
Thomas Hooker | founder of the Connecticut colony |
Roger Williams | the founder of Rhode island, wanted peace with native Americans |