Flashcards: American History
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bposey on April 20, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Northwest Passage | a waterway through or around North America |
| Pilgrims | English Puritans who founded Plymouth colony in 1620 |
| Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. |
| Joint Stock Company | a business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit- Such as the Virginia Company |
| Jamestown | First permanent English settlement in North America 1607 |
| Indentured Servant | Laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America |
| House of Burgesses | created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies- Virginia |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Puritans | a group of Anglicans in England who wanted to purify their church of Catholic ways |
| Great Migration | when more than 15,000 Puritans journeyed to Massachusetts to escape religious persecution and economic hard times |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | This document was the first written constitution in the American colonies. |
| Backcountry | a colonial region that ran along the Appalachian Mountains. |
| Subsistence Farming | farming in which only enough food to feed one's family is produced- the type of farming in New England |
| 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 |
| Navigation Acts | Laws passed by the British to control colonial trade |
| Great Awakening | a religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s |
| Enlightenment | movement during the 1700's that spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society |
| Magna Carta | This document was signed by King John in 1215. It was the first document that limited the power of the government. |
| English Bill of Rights | document that gave England a government based on a system of laws and a freely elected parliament |
| Proclamation of 1763 | law forbidding english colonists to settle west of the appalachian mountains |
| Quartering Act | an act passed by the British that allowed British troops to live in the homes of the colonists |
| Sons of Liberty | Groups of colonists who organized themselves to protest against the British government. |
| Boycott | Refusal to buy or sell certain products or services used by the colonists in protest |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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