vocab for tgb
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 jamestown | the first colony in america; set up in 1607 along the James river in virginia. |
| indentured servents | a colonist whoo recived free passage to north america in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years. |
| Bacon's Rebellion | an attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and the colonial government in Virginia |
| Toleration act of 1649 | a Maryland law that made restricting the religious of Christians a crime; The first law gauranteing religious freedom to be passed in America. |
| slave codes | laws passed in the colonies to control slaves |
| Puritans | Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England |
| Pilgrims | a member of a puritan separitist sect thst left England in the early 1600's to settle in the America's. |
| Mayflower Compact | (1620)a document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government. |
| Anne Huthinson | publicly discussed religious ideas that some leaders thought werew radical. |
| Quakers | society of friends; protestant sect founded in 1640s in england whose members believed that salvation was available to all people |
| staple crops | crops that are continuously in demand |
| cash crops | what the colonists sold |
| English Bill of Rights | a shift of political power from the british monarchy to parliament |
| Great Awakening | a religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s |
| Pontiac | (c.1720-1769) Ottawa chief who united the Great Lakes' Indians to try to halt the advance of European settlements, he attacked British forts in a rebellion known as Pontiac's Rebellion; he eventually surrendered in 1766. |
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