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| Jamestown | The first colony in America; set up in 1607 along the James River in Virginia. |
| John Smith | Took control of Jamestown and built a fort in 1608. He made an agreement with the Powhatan Confederacy of Native Americans. The Powhatan taught the colonists how to grow corn and brought them food. |
| Pocahontas | Daughter of Powhatan leader. Marriage to John Rolfe led to colonists having more peaceful relations with the Powhatan. She died in England while visiting Rolfe. |
| Indentured Servants | A colonist who received 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 (1676). |
| Toleration Act of 1649 | A Maryland law that made restricting the religious rights of Christians a crime. The first law guaranteeing 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 Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600s, to settle in the Americas. |
| Immigrants | A person who moves to another country after leaving his or her own homeland. |
| Mayflower Compact | A document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government (1620). |
| Squanto | Pawtuxet Indian, who at one time spoke English and lived in Europe. |
| John Winthrop | Leader of Puritan colonists, who left England for Massachusetts. |
| Anne Hutchinson | An outspoken woman who upset Puritan Church leaders, by publicly discussing religious ideas. |
| Peter Stuyvesant | Led a colony of Jews, French Huguenots, Puritans, and others in 1647. |
| Quakers | Society of friends; Protestant sect founded in the 1640s in England, whose members believed that salvation was available to all people. |
| William Penn | A Quaker who founded a colony west of New Jersey, under King Charles II. |
| Staple Crops | A crop that is continuously in demand. |
| Town Meeting | A political meeting at which people make decisions on local issues; used primarily in New England. |
| English Bill of Rights | This act reduced the powers of the English monarch (1689). |
| Triangular Trade | A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa. |
| Great Awakening- | A religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. |
| Enlightenment | This movement, which took place during the 1700s, spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society. |
| Pontiac | A chief who opposed British settlement of the new land, and he led a rebellion. |
| Samuel Adams | Local Boston leader in 1764. He agreed with Otis and Parliament and he couldn’t tax the colonists without their permission. |
| Committees of Correspondence | Each committee got in touch with other towns and colonies. Its members shared ideas and information about the new British laws and ways to challenge them. |
| Stamp Act of 1765 | This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items. |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists. They killed 5 people. Sam Adams and Paul Revere used it as porpaganda against the British soldiers. |
| Tea Act | In 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists. |
| Boston Tea Party | Night of December 16, 1773. Colonists disguised themselves as Indians, then snuck onto the tea-filled ships and dumped the tea overboard. |
| Intolerable Acts | Spring of 1774 the Coercive Acts were passed, these laws were called intolerable. |
| Quartering Act | Required colonists to house British soldiers. |
