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: the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Jamestown
a separatist group that had left Engand in the early 1600's to escape persecution.
Pilgrims:
was a local town leader who believed that Parliament could not tax the colnists without their permission.
Samuel Adams
was a leader of an Indian tribe who opposed British settlements of the new land.
Chief Pontiac
This act in 1689 reduced the powers of the English monarch and at the same time gave Parliament more power
English Bill of Rights:
On the night of December 16, 1773 the colonists disguised as indians and sneaked onto the tree tea-filled ships and dumped over 340 chests of tea in the boston harbor.
boston tea party.
was a former slave who endured viciously brutal conditions and recorded his experiances
Olaudah Equiano
in these meetings people talked about issues and decided how to deal with them and also dealt with local interest like schools.
town meeting:
A protestant group called the Puritans wanted to purify, or reform, the Anglican Church.
Puritans:
was one of the most important leaders of the great awakening. His sermons told sinners to seek forgivesness for their sins or face punishment in hell forever.
Jonathan Edwards
a patuxet indian, who had at one time lived in europe and spoke english as well.
Squanto
a system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa.
triangular trade:
a legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good
Mayflower Compact:
laws made to control slaves which most of the colonies passed
slave codes:
was a movement that took place during the 1700s, and it spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society
The enlightenment
people who have left the country of their birth sto live in another country
immigrants:
:a man who took control of the colony and built a fort in 1608. He forced settlers to work harder
John Smith
daughter of the Powahatan leader who married John Rolfe in 1614
Pocahantas:
the act that allowed the british east india company to sell tea dirsctly to colonists.
Tea Act:
the name that colonists gave the unnessecary shootings and killings by the British Soldiers against the Colonist
Boston Massacre:
servants that signed a contract to work for four to seven years for those who paid for their journey to America
indentured servants:
in when each commitee got in touch with other towns and colonies. Its members shared ideas and information about the new british laws and ways to challenge them.
The commitees of correspondance
The Society of Friends who made up one of the largest religious groups in New Jersey
Quakers:
led a fleet of ships carrying puritan colonists that left english for massechusetts to seek religous freedom.
John Winthrop
are crops that are always needed
Staple crops .
was an act that required colonist to pay for an official stamp or seal when they bought paper items.
Stamp act of 1765
Bacon and his followers attacked and burned Jamestown in an uprising after the governer tried to stop Bacon
Bacon's Rebelion:
In the sping of 1774 Parliament passed the Corcive Acts which Colonists called the intolerable acts
Intolerable Acts:
a religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730's and 1740's that changed colonial religion and affected social and colonial life
The Great Awakening:
: a quaker member who started the colony of Pennsylvania.
William Penn
an outspoken woman who disussed religious ideas that some other leaders thought were radical.
Anne Hutchinson:
Director General who led the conlony of New Netherlands beginning in 1647
Peter Stuyvesant:
required the british soldiers to be housed by the colonists.
Quartering Act:
A bill which made it a crime to restrict the religous rights of Christians
Toleration Act of 1649:
a philosopher who thought that people had natural rights such as equality and liberty.
John Locke: