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| 33007790 | Iroquois Confederacy | Confederation of 5 Native Tribes across New York that played a huge role in French-British struggle during the 17-18th centuries. Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cagua, Seneca | |
| 33007791 | Indentured Servitude | a person who has immigrated at the expense of another person. They must work for little or no money for that person to pay off their debt | |
| 33007792 | Virginia Company | a joint stock company charged with settlement of Virginia. Had power to appoint Virginia's council | |
| 33007793 | Starving Time | the point in time where people of Jamestown were so obsessed with finding gold, they forgot the nessecities, such as food. They nearly starve, and many die | |
| 33007794 | Longhouses | rectangular homes made from logs and bark where Natives lived | |
| 33007795 | Slave Codes | laws in the southern states that controlled enslaved people | |
| 33007796 | Royal Charter | written grant of rights by royalty for the creation of new settlements for the crown | |
| 33007797 | House of Burgesses | the first representative government in North America. First met July 30, 1619 at a church in Jamestown. 22 members. Must be white, landowning free men. | |
| 33007798 | Enclosure | movement when landowners closed off public land to better organize and keep track of animals. No longer shared grazing pastures/land among many farmers | |
| 33007799 | Slavery | an inhumaine, act of owning and forcing another human being to work for no pay. Slaves were treated terribly and reguarded as property | |
| 33007800 | John Smith | English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; saved by Pocahontas | |
| 33007801 | James Oglethorpe | the founder of the colony of Georgia | |
| 33007802 | Oliver Cromwell | English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658) | |
| 33007803 | Sir Walter Raleigh | English explorer who went along with halfbrother Sir Humphrey Gilbert to take over any land not already posessed by Christians. Their 'missionary' work helped aquire new lands for England | |
| 33007804 | Lord Baltimore | Founded the colony of Maryland and offered religious freedom to all Christian colonists. He did so because he knew that members of his own religion (Catholicism) would be a minority in the colony. | |
| 33007805 | John Rolfe | "father of tobacco" his marraige to Pocahontas helped end the Anglo-Powhattan war. | |
| 33007806 | Powhattan | a tribe who befriended people of Jamestown. Then faught settlers in Anglo-Powhattan war, and were killed off | |
| 33007807 | Pocahontas | Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life; Marriage to John Rolfe ended Anglo-Powhattan war | |
| 33007808 | Lord de La Warr | New Governer of Jamestown. Responsible for horrible tactics used on Indians. Helped fix Jamestown | |
| 33007809 | Primogeniture | custom that land went to and ONLY to eldest son | |
| 33007810 | Yeoman | free man who cultivated his own crops | |
| 33007811 | Squatter | Newcomers to North Carolina without legal rights to soil. Were looked upon as rif-raf, and low class | |
| 33007812 | Nation-State | state or country that has defined borders and territories | |
| 33007813 | Act of Toloration | Religous freedom law that helped save Catholics |
