American History

161514725	Northwest Passage	a waterway through or around North America
161514726	Pilgrims	English Puritans who founded Plymouth colony in 1620
161553175	Columbian Exchange	The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
161553176	Joint Stock Company	a business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit- Such as the Virginia Company
161553177	Jamestown	First permanent English settlement in North America 1607
161553178	Indentured Servant	Laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America
161553179	House of Burgesses	created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies- Virginia
161553180	Pilgrim	one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620
161553181	Mayflower Compact	1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.
161553182	Puritans	a group of Anglicans in England who wanted to purify their church of Catholic ways
161553183	Great Migration	when more than 15,000 Puritans journeyed to Massachusetts to escape religious persecution and economic hard times
161553184	Fundamental Orders of Connecticut	This document was the first written constitution in the American colonies.
161553185	Backcountry	a colonial region that ran along the Appalachian Mountains.
161553186	Subsistence Farming	farming in which only enough food to feed one's family is produced- the type of farming in New England
161553187	Triangular Trade	A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Aferica sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa
161553188	Navigation Acts	Laws passed by the British to control colonial trade
161553189	Great Awakening	a religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s
161553190	Enlightenment	movement during the 1700's that spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society
161553191	Magna Carta	This document was signed by King John in 1215. It was the first document that limited the power of the government.
161553192	English Bill of Rights	document that gave England a government based on a system of laws and a freely elected parliament
161553193	Proclamation of 1763	law forbidding english colonists to settle west of the appalachian mountains
161553194	Quartering Act	an act passed by the British that allowed British troops to live in the homes of the colonists
161553195	Sons of Liberty	Groups of colonists who organized themselves to protest against the British government.
161553196	Boycott	Refusal to buy or sell certain products or services used by the colonists in protest
161553197	Boston Massacre	The first bloodshed of the Amercan Revolution, as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five americans
161553198	Boston Tea Party	demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor