AP History American Pagent ID Cards Ch. 2

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