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| indentured servants | people who signed a contract to work for a certain lenth of time in exchange for passage to the colonies |
| Middle Passage | the sea journey from Africa to the Americas taken by slave ships |
| House of Burgesses | colonial government made of elected representatives |
| Puritans | religious group who believed that the Church of England needed to be purified of anything not directly from the Bible |
| Mayflower Compact | first colonial agreement- signed before landing, it formed a government based on consent ofthe governed. |
| town meetings | held in Mass. as a form of democracy where all make residnets could speak - although only Puritan males could vote or hold office |
| Roger Williams | a Puritan who believed Native Am's should be paid and that church and state shoud be separate - established settlements in Rhode Island. |
| Proprietary Colonies | founded by king-appointed individuals- they had sole authority and idealism |
| George Calvert | proprietor of Maryland, intended it to e a haven for Catholics - failed in the effort |
| Society of Frineds | religiious group founded by George Fox - members (quakers) believed God to be in all people - objected to war and slavery |
| William Penn | a Quaker and proprietor of Penn. - est it as haven for all religions |
| James E. Oglethorpe | proprietor of GA who wanted to create a haven for poor (noslavery permitted) - failed financially |
| triangular trade route | - colonial trade routes between the Caribbean, NEw England, Europe and Africa |
| Navigation Acts | - restrictions placed on colonial shipping by England |
| French & Indian War (7 yrs war) | 1754-1763 caused realignmnet of European borders in the new world, including France's loss of all N American land claims. |
| Writs of assistance | legal documents that allowed British customs officers to search for illegal goods without an owner's permission |
| Sons of Liberty | group of colonial men who joined together to protest Stamp Act and protect colonial liberties |
| Cripus Attucks | a free cblack sailor dilled at Bonton Massacre |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers shot five men in Boston, March 5, 1770 |
| Boston Tea Party | Dec 16, 1773 some Sons of Liberty dressed as Native Am and threw tea into Boston Harbor in protest of the tax on tea |
| Intolerable Acts | laws passed in Parliament to punish colonists for Boston Tea Party |
| Patrick Henry | delivered passionate "Give Me Liberty or Give me Death!" speech in House of Burgesses |
| minutemen | volunteers who trained to fight the British |
| Paul Revere | rode from Boston to Concord to warn the Patriots that the British were coming |
| Benjamin Franklin | displmat, scientist and sage - obtained aid from France for the revolution |
| 1st & 2nd Continental Congress | gathering of colony delegates - model for govvernment |
| George Washington | general who trained troops to fight in Revolutionary War, later served as 1st Pres of the US |
| Olive Branch Petition | last peace proposal sent to king- callind colonist "traitors," he retaliated |
| Loyalists/Tories | colonists loyal to English ki- most were dependent on king for livelihoodng |
| Thomas Paine | - wrote "Common Sense", inspiring and uniting colonists' desire for independence |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote Declaration of Ind. |
| Dec of Ind | document that declared the colonies' independence from Great Britain |
| guerrilla was tactics | hit and run attacks |
| Treaty of Paris (1783) | treaty between Great Britain and the US to end Revolutionary War |
| Abigail Adams | wrote letters to husban, John Adams, urging him to champion women's rights to representation in the new nation. |
| Lafayette | young French nobleman who fought for US in Revolutionary War |
| Mercantilism | economic policy which favors exports over imports to increase a nation's gold reserves |
