Vocab 1
The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in Virginia in 1607.
Jamestown
Laws that controlled enslaved Africans and denied them basic rights.
Slave Codes
A group of English Separatists who came to America on the Mayflower in 1620 seeking religious freedom.
Pilgrims
Important crops that were always in demand, such as wheat, barley, and oats.
Staple Crops
A gathering in New England colonies where settlers made decisions about local issues and laws.
Town Meeting
A protest in 1773 where colonists, dressed as Native Americans, dumped British tea into Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party
People who agreed to work for a set number of years in exchange for passage to America.
Indentured Servants
A religious group from England who wanted to “purify” the Church of England and settled in New England for religious freedom.
Puritans
A religious group that believed in equality, peace, and simple living; they settled mainly in Pennsylvania.
Quakers
A 1676 uprising of poor farmers and indentured servants in Virginia, led by Nathaniel Bacon, against the colonial government.
Bacon's Rebellion
A Maryland law that gave religious freedom to all Christians.
Toleration Act of 1649
A 1689 document that limited the powers of the king and gave Parliament more power, inspiring ideas of rights for colonists.
English Bill of Rights
A trade system between the colonies, Africa, and the West Indies that exchanged goods and enslaved people.
Triangular Trade
A religious revival in the 1730s–1740s that encouraged greater religious freedom and new churches.
Great Awakening
A movement in the 1600s–1700s that emphasized reason, science, and individual rights.
Enlightenment
Groups formed by colonists to share information and organize resistance to British policies.
Committees of Correspondence
A British law that taxed printed items like newspapers and legal documents in the colonies.
Stamp Act of 1765
A 1770 event where British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people.
Boston Massacre
A 1773 law allowing the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies, making it cheaper but keeping the tax.
Tea Act
Harsh laws passed by Britain in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party, including closing the harbor.
Intolerable Acts
An agreement signed by the Pilgrims in 1620 to establish self-government and majority rule in their colony.
Mayflower Compact