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Unit 1 Colonies Voca
Term | Definition |
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France | Catholic nation that colonized America to profit off the fur trade with Natives. |
Spain | Catholic nation, colonized the Americas for gold and to convert Natives to Christianity. |
France | country in Europe that colonized Canada and the Mississippi River Valley. |
Spain | Country in Europe that founded Colonies in South America, Mexico, and the Southwest. |
Jamestown | the first successful and permanent colony in North America. |
Join Stock Company | group of investors that share profits and losses of a colony. |
John Smith | person that helped James town survive with his leadership. |
Powhatan | Group of Native Americans that helped, and also fought with the Jamestown settlers |
Pocahontas | Daughter of a Native American chief that helped Jamestown by proving food. |
John Rolfe | Person that introduces tobacco growing in James town, made it successful. |
Indentured servant | a person agrees to work for 7-10 years in exchange for passage to America, given freedom and land at the end of their contract. |
House of Burgesses | First representative government in North America. |
Georgia | Founded as a buffer colony and a place for the poor to work off their debts. |
Debtor | a person that owes money to another. |
James Oglethorpe | Founded the Georgia colony. |
Cash crops | Crops that are sold to make profits in a global market. |
Middle Passage | The journey slaves took from Africa to the Americas. |
Overt | ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or lead a rebellion against their owners. |
Passive | ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work,. broke equipment, faked illnesses. |
Separatists | Also called the pilgrims, wanted to brake free from the church of England. |
Plymouth | name of the colony that Separatists established for their religious freedom. |
Mayflower Compact | Government of the pilgrims that setup a majority rule in their colony. |
Squanto | Native Americans that helped pilgrims,s 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 Puritans established. |
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 a 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 | Founder of Rhode Island, wanted peace with Native Americans. |
Rhode Island | the first colony that established religious freedom. |
Anne Hutchinson | woman that challenged leadership of Massachusetts Bay by holding her own church meetings. |
Theocracy | Type of government in which religious leaders make the laws. |
Salem Witch Trials | Hysteria that led to dozens of people being accused of a crime with no evidence. |
Triangular Trade | a network of trading between the Americas, Europe, and Africa exchanging raw materials, manufactured goods, and slaves. |
Mercantilism | the economic system in which a mother country sends manufactured goods to its colonies in exchange for raw materials. |
Navigation Acts | Laws passed by Parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited. |
New Netherlands | Dutch colony that would become New York, encouraged tolerance. |
Peter Stuyvesant | Dutch Governor of New Netherlands that handed it over to the English without a battle. |
Quakers | Religious group that settled Pennsylvania. |
Quakers | Beloved in Equality between men and women, slavery was evil, and they could experience God through "Inner Light". |
William Penn | Leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans. |
First Great Awakening | religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700s. |
First Great Awakening | Revival that led to more religious tolerance and more churches |
Gorge Whitefeild | Famous preacher in the First Great Awakening that traveled all over the colonies. |
Jonathan Edwards | First Great Awakening preacher who preached the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". |