| A | B |
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| Jamestown | first permanent settlement in North America |
| John Smith | took control of the Jamestown and built a fort, forced settlers to work harder, and built better housing |
| Pocahontas | daughter of Powhatan leader, married John Rolfe and this made more peace |
| indentured servants | signed a contract to work for four to seven years for those who paid for their journey to America |
| Bacon's Rebellion | when Jamestown was burned in an uprising |
| Toleration Acts of 1649 | bill that made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians |
| Olaudah Equiano | former slave |
| slaves codes | laws to control slaves |
| Puritans | protestant group that wanted to purify, or reform, the Anglican Church |
| pilgrims | Separatist group that left England in the early 1600s to escape persecution |
| immigrants | people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country |
| Mayflower Compact | a legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good |
| Squanto | taught the pilgrims to ferlize the soil with fish, and helped them establish relations with local Indians |
| John Winthrop | led the Puritan colonist out of England to Massachusetts for religious freedom |
| Anne Hutchinson | publicly discussed religious ideas that some leaders thought were radical- believed that people's relationship with God did not need guidance from ministers- was forced out of the colony |
| Peter Stuyvesant | led the colony beginning in 1947 and was forced to surrender New Amsterdam to the English |
| quakers | society of friends; protestants whose members believed that salvation was available to all people |
| William Penn | quaker that wanted to find a safe home for his people |
| staple crops | crops that are always needed |
| town meeting | people talked about and decided on issues of local interests |
| english bill of rights | reduced the powers of the English monarch |
| triangular trade | system in which good and slaves were traded among the Americans, Indians, and Africa |
| Great Awakening | religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s |
| Jonathan Edwards | one of the most important leaders of the Great Awakening |
| Enlightenment | took placed during 1700s that spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society |
| John Locke | thought that people had natural rights such as equality and liberty |
| Pontiac | Indian chief that opposed British settlement of the new land, attacked British forts |
| Samuel Adams | believed that Parliament could not tax the colonists without their permission |
| Committees of Correspondence | got in touch with other towns and colonies, its members shared ideas and info about the new British laws |
| Stamp Act of 1765 | required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items |
| Boston Massacre | an incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people |
| Tea Act | allowed the British East India company to sell tea directly to the colonists |
| Bosten Tea Party | colonists disguised as Indians sneaked on the the 3 tea filled ships and dumped over 340 tea chests into the Boston Harbor |
| Intolerable Acts | laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control |
| Quartering Acts | required colonists to house soldiers |
