Jamestown/ Vocab Flashcards
Freedom
The power or right to act think and speak what you want
Slavery
Bonrage, servetive and voluntary subjection to others
Rebellion
Act of violence or open resistance
Revolution
Over throw or social order
Indentured servants
A person under contract to for another
Shareholder
Someone who own shares of a company
Women in Jamestown
They could not vote. They made everything from scratch.
Africans in Jamestown
1619-first african arrive in va.
Colonists valued them for their agricultural skills.
How many Africans were in the english colonies in 1644
300 slaves for life
Pilgrims means
Separatists who want to separate from the Church of England
Voters in Jamestown
Any free adult, later only land holding males could vote
Pilgrims seek _________________
Religious freedom
Before they leave the boat for shore, the pilgrims set up an agreement call the
Mayflower compact
1st thanks giving- the ________ Indians helped the pilgrims.
Wampanoag
Squanto brought them
Seeds of corn, beans, and pumpkins and showed them how to plant these seeds. Next harvest was successful
Representative government
A government in which voters elect representatives to govern for them
Parliament
A representative assembly in England
Mayflower compact
An agreement made in 1620 it established methods which the Plymouth colony was to be ruled. It was signed by the pilgrims.
Sir ___________ encourages Richard Hakluyt to write Queen Elizabeth I to persuade her to set up colonies in North America
Walter Raleigh
Why did I think settlement in North America would be good for England?
North America had good harbor, plenty of timber to make ships, plenty of trees to make masts, it was all free
In 1585 they landed on________
Roanoke island (off of the coast of North Carolina
The Virginia company receives a charter from
King james 1
What disease is spread by Mosquitos
Malaria
Smith meets with the most powerful indian chief in the area
Powhatan
Powhatan agrees to sell cir to the
English
Tobacco is
A cash crop
The English take the corn ___
Violently
This marks the start of representative government where voters elect ___ makes laws for them
Representatives
Magna Carta
1215 king john is forced to sign a document that states that monarchs, like everyone else, must obey the law
