Important vocabulary of the colonization of North America in the 17th century
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| 4829847456 | Jamestown | 1st permanent English settlement in North America in 1607. |  | 0 |
| 4829847457 | John Smith | A captain famous for world travel. As a young man, he took control in Jamestown. He organized the colony and saved many people from death the next winter and coined the phrase "he who shall not work, shall not eat". He also initiated attacks on Natives. |  | 1 |
| 4829847458 | John Rolfe | He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony. Eventually, he was killed in a Pequot attack. |  | 2 |
| 4829847460 | Mayflower Compact | 1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by 41 men and set up a government for the Plymouth colony |  | 3 |
| 4829847461 | John Winthrop | As governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, he was instrumental in forming the colony's government and shaping its legislative policy. He envisioned the colony, centered in present-day Boston, as a "city upon a hill" from which Puritans would spread religious righteousness throughout the world. |  | 4 |
| 4829847462 | Puritans | A religious group who wanted to reform the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay. |  | 5 |
| 4829847463 | Pilgrims | English Separatists who founded Plymouth colony in 1620 |  | 6 |
| 4829847466 | New Amsterdam | A settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island as a trade port for the Dutch trade empire. |  | 7 |
| 4829847467 | Great Migration of Puritans | 1630s- 70,000 refugees left England for New World increasing population of New England. | 8 | |
| 4829847468 | New York | It was founded by the Dutch for trade and furs and became an English Colony in 1664, when the English were determined to end Dutch trade dominance, and took over the colony by invading New Amsterdam without having to fire a shot. |  | 9 |
| 4829847470 | House of Burgesses | 1619 - the first legislative body in colonial America. It was made up of two representatives from each town voted on by men who owned property. |  | 10 |
| 4829847471 | Headright system | Parcels of land consisting of about 50 acres which were given to colonists who brought indentured servants into America. They were used by the Virginia Company to attract more colonists. |  | 11 |
| 4829847472 | Indentured servants | Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years |  | 12 |
| 4829847473 | Bacon's Rebellion | 1676 - western Virginia settlers were angry at Virginia Governor Berkeley for trying to appease the Doeg Indians after the Doegs attacked the western settlements. The frontiersmen formed an army which defeated the Indians and then marched on Jamestown and burned the city. The movement ended suddenly. |  | 13 |
| 4829847474 | King Philip's War/Metacom's War | The Wampanoag destroyed colonial towns, the colonists destroyed native farms, leading to the most deadly of Indian Wars. The war was disastrous for the natives leading to few surviving the war, and those that did left New England. |  | 14 |
| 4829847476 | proprietary colony | English colony in which the king gave land to individuals in exchange for a yearly payment | 15 | |
| 4829847477 | town meetings | A purely democratic form of government common in the colonies, and the most prevalent form of local government in New England. In general, the local voting population would meet once a year to elect officers, levy taxes, and pass laws. |  | 16 |
| 4829847478 | Salem Witch Trials | 1692 outbreak of accusations in a Puritan village marked by an atmosphere of fear, hysteria, and unfounded accusations in courts with Puritan ministers who served as judges. 19 women were executed. |  | 17 |
| 4829847479 | Roger Williams | A dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which founded the colony of Rhode Island to the south. | 18 | |
| 4829847481 | Anne Hutchinson | One of the dissenters in Puritan Massachusetts held bible studies at house and believed in a personal relationship with god. Moved to New Netherlands where died along with children from an Indian attack. | 19 | |
| 4829847484 | William Penn | Established a "holy experiment". Freemen had the right to vote, provided leadership for self- government based on personal virtues and Quaker religious beliefs. His colony was religiously tolerant leading to diversity in the region. |  | 20 |
| 4829847486 | Toleration Act of 1649 | Permitted Catholics to worship as they pleased in Maryland--first protection of religious freedom in modern day U.S. |  | 21 |
| 4829847488 | Halfway Covenant | A Puritan church document; In 1662, it allowed partial membership rights to persons not yet converted into the Puritan church; It lessened the difference between the "elect" members of the church from the regular members; Women soon made up a larger portion of Puritan congregations. |  | 22 |
| 4829847491 | Mercantilism | An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought. |  | 23 |
| 4829847492 | Triangular Slave Trade | A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa. | 24 | |
| 4829847493 | Middle Passage | A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies. The conditions on the ships from Africa to the west led to the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives. | 25 | |
| 4829847495 | Ben Franklin | A colonial businessman and scientist who was an example of American social mobility and individualism. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania in colonial meetings, and proposed the "Albany Plan of the Union" as a way to strengthen the colonies in the French and Indian War. He was a leading figure in the movement toward revolution, and as a diplomat to France to get help during the American Revolution | 26 | |
| 4829847496 | Great Awakening | (1730s and 1740s) Religious movement characterized by emotional preaching (Jonathan Edwards & George Whitefield). It established American religious precedents such as camp meetings, revivals, and a "born again" philosophy. The first cultural movement to unite the thirteen colonies. It was associated with the democratization of religion, and a challenge to existing authorities and was an influence leading to the American Revolution. |  | 27 |
| 4829847497 | Jonathan Edwards | A leading minister during the Great Awakening, he delivered the famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" promising that evildoers would pay a price on judgement day. |  | 28 |
