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| 82175227 | Jamestown | First permanent English settlement in America | |
| 82175228 | tobacco | Cash crop that made a profit and saved Jamestown | |
| 82175229 | House of Burgesses | In 1619 this became the first form of representative government in the American colonies | |
| 82175230 | indentured servant | Poor laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America | |
| 82175231 | triangular trade | a trade route that exchanged goods between England, the West Indies, the American colonies, and West Africa | |
| 82175232 | mercantilism | An economic system in which colonies are used as a source of natural resources and trade ONLY with the mother country | |
| 82175233 | raw materials | supplies or physical resources necessary to produce a tangible good, such as cotton or timber | |
| 82175235 | Mayflower Compact | A document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government. | |
| 82175249 | Middle Passage | the journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas, so called because it was the middle portion of the triangular trade route | |
| 82175289 | Puritans | a group of people who sought freedom from religious persecution in England by founding a colony at Massachusetts Bay; known for faith and hard work | |
| 82852408 | William Penn | Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania for religious freedom | |
| 82852410 | finished products | English colonies were forced to buy these only from England (also called manufactured goods) | |
| 82909334 | cash crops | Easily grown and sold for a large profit; such as wheat, indigo, rice, tobacco, and cotton | |
| 82909335 | port cities | places on or near a coastline that were vital to trade, such as Boston, New York and Philadelphia | |
| 82909337 | joint stock company | A business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit; how Jamestown was funded | |
| 82909338 | plantation | A large farm worked by many laborers; cash crops were grown here | |
| 82909339 | Pilgrims | Separatists who fled England because of religious persecution and landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620 | |
| 82909340 | Toleration Act | law that was passed in Maryland to guarantee religious freedom | |
| 82909341 | Massachusetts | Colony most associated with religious intolerance | |
| 82909342 | New England | Region whose economy was dominated by trade, whaling, lumber and fishing | |
| 82909343 | Middle | Region were religious tolerance was most often found | |
| 82909344 | Southern | Region with the warmest climate and most fertile soil for growing crops | |
| 82909347 | mother country | A term used to refer to the nation from which colonists emigrated; in the U.S., this term refers to England | |
| 82909348 | colony | Group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by the government of their native land. | |
| 83005328 | Join or Die | Cartoon showing the colonies as a divided snake; Franklin urged unity in 1754 to help the colonies survive | |
| 83042638 | French and Indian War | British defeated the French, gained "western" territories, but were in debt; began to tax the colonists | |
| 83042639 | Proclamation Line of 1763 | Forbade colonists to settle beyond Appalachian mtns; made colonists mad because they thought they were being oppressed | |
| 83045086 | salutary neglect | Great Britain's decision to not interfere in her colony's affairs and allow them to set up their own colonial governments | |
| 83045087 | Stamp Act | A law passed by British Parliament in 1765 which required all colonists to buy a stamp for certain paper they bought (documents, almanac, dice) | |
| 83070536 | Stamp Act Congress | met in NYC in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act; this meeting and action was a major step to colonial unity and resistance of British authority. | |
| 83070537 | boycott | an organized campaign to refuse to buy certain products | |
| 83070538 | "no taxation without representation" | Motto used by colonists to protest taxing by Parliament without any representatives there | |
| 83070539 | quartering | this term refers to the housing and feeding of soldiers | |
| 83070540 | Intolerable Acts | a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party (also called Coercive Acts) | |
| 83070541 | Parliament | the lawmaking body of British government | |
| 83070542 | Boston Tea Party | A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor. | |
| 83070543 | 1st Continental Congress | 1774 - delegates met and agreed to an economic boycott of GB; published a list of rights and grievances; petitioned King George for redress of those grievances | |
| 83070544 | 2nd Continental Congress | Congress of American leaders which first met in 1775, declared independence in 1776, and helped lead the United States during the Revolution | |
| 83070548 | loyalist | a person who supported the British cause in the American Revolution; a Tory | |
| 83070549 | patriot | A person who supported the colonists during the American Revolution | |
| 83070550 | Common Sense | a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that claimed the colonies had a right to be an independent nation | |
| 83070552 | Declaration of Independence | the document approved by representatives of the American colonies in 1776 that stated their grievances against the British monarch and declared their independence. | |
| 83070553 | natural rights | According to John Locke, these are life, liberty and property. Government's job is to protect these rights, and if these rights are NOT protected, people have the right to rebel. | |
| 83070554 | social contract | the notion that society is based on an agreement between government and the governed in which people agree to give up some rights in exchange for the protection of others | |
| 83070557 | George Washington | Commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War | |
| 83070558 | Thomas Jefferson | Main author of the Declaration of Independence | |
| 83070559 | John Locke | English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract" and who also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property | |
| 83070561 | King George III | King of Great Britain during the American Revolution (he) | |
| 83075866 | grievance | A complaint in which one party seeks redress, that is, correction, perceived wrong from another party | |
| 83075867 | Committees of Correspondence | way for the 13 colonies to communicate through letters with each other about what was goin on in their colonies | |
| 83075868 | Sons of Liberty | A radical political organization formed after the passage of the Stamp Act to protest various British acts; organization used both peaceful and violent means of protest. | |
| 83075869 | tyranny | oppressive government that employs cruel and unjust use of power and authority | |
| 198768538 | Boston Massacre | a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists were killed. | |
| 199334144 | Anthony Johnson | black indentured servant that finish his servitude and became wealthy land owner in Virgina in the 1600s |
