US History

• An individual who agrees to work for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to the new world.
• Slavery

  The practice of owning other humans.
• Members of different native americans tribes tried to capture british forts and tried to attack british settlements
• King James I established a settlement with a royal charter.
• Powhatan was the Chief of the Algonquians, helping the colonists by giving them corn in exchange for copper.
• John Smith saved the settlers from death, issuing a no work no food policy.
• Pocahontas, Powhatan's daughter, married John Rolfe in return for a treaty of peace.
• John Rolfe introduced a form of tobacco to Virginia and was a leading colonist, leading to the survival of Jamestown.
• Sir Francis Drake brought tobacco to England, leading to the first profit from Virginia.
• Opechancanough, Powhatan’s brother, led a rebellion against the colonists.
• The Calvet Family was a very powerful family that supported the English king.
• John Calvin let the ideas of the Calvinist and the Puritans.
• William Bradford led the pilgrims to Plymouth.
• John Winthrop established the city on a hill, known as Salem.
• Benjamin Franklin was a successful printer who wrote almanacs and books along with the enlightenment.
• Jonathan Edwards was an evangelical preacher who used the image of an angry god to inspire listeners to repent for their sins.
• Robert Dinwiddie was the Governor of Virginia, sending troops to evict the French.
• Pontiac, a Chief who led Pontiac’s rebellion.
• George Washington was a young military officer.
• Thomas Hooker was the founder of Hartford, a minister who disagreed with the policy of restricting suffrage to male church members.
• Roger Williams belonged to the congregation of Salem and believed in the separation of the church and state, purchasing land from the near to the Narragansetts and founding the town of Providence.
• Plymouth was founded by pilgrims governed by William Bradford and is known for having a healthy living environment and good education.
• Western America was controlled by the French and Eastern America was controlled by the English.
• The Sugar Act was a tax placed on sugar.
• The Southern Colonies are characterized by agriculture, a longer growing season, and large plantations, they farmed tobacco, rice, and indigo.
• The Pequot War was fought because the pequots were unhappy and enraged with the fact that the Puritans were taking their land.
• Pontiac’s rebellion was fought because the native americans were being cut off from the British settler’s goods.
• Georgia was founded by George II and is known for being a safe haven for debtors but was very strict.
• The Proclamation line of 1763 was a document that required settlers to remain east of the appalachian mountains.
• The Middle Colonies are characterized by some farming, farming wheat, corn, and greens.
• The Treaty of Paris resolved the seven years war.
• The Declaratory act was a law stating that England has the power to place taxes for the English colonies.
• The Navigation Acts were trade laws that regulated colonial commerce, only English ships could trade in the colonies and very valuable goods could only be traded with England.
• The Albany Plan of Union, a proposal to form one government for the colonies in North America, was divised by Ben Franklin and all 13 colonies would send delegates but no colony liked the plan.
• The Stamp Act was a tax placed on legal documents.
• Fort Duquesne was a French Fort captured by the English led by George Washington.
• The New England Colonies are characterized by cold winters, a short growing season, and rocky soil, instead of farming colonists had trading, fishing, and artisans.
• William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, created a separate government called The Society of Friends, ran by Quakers, and wanted Pennsylvania to be a holy experiment with religious freedom.
• Followers of John Calvin wanted to purify and reform the English church.