English colonies vocab Flashcards
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A business set up to raise money to make English settlements in the New World.
In this set up, organizers (entrepreneurs) would get a charter from the King and then get investors to put
their money into the company. They would use this money to make settlements in the New World. The
Virginia Company founded Jamestown.
joint stock company
Someone who puts their money into a company and expects to get it back plus more in return.
The Joint Stock Companies had investors.
investor
The 1st permanent English settlement in the New World. Led by Captain John Smith and
Pocahontas through the “starving time”. It was started in 1607.
jamestown
Set up by the Pilgrims when they reached Plymouth (in Mass.) rather than
Virginia. They created this document to set up a fair government for their new colony. Allowed the
people to make some of their own decisions.
Mayflower compact
The legislature (lawmaking group) of Virginia. People of this colony were allowed
to pass their own laws, with some limitations. This was the first form of representative government in the New World. It was one of the “tiny seeds” of democracy.
house of burgesses
The horrible journey African people were forced to take across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the New World to be sold into slavery. It was part of the Triangle Trade.
the middle passage
-The belief that the colonies existed to make England more rich. The Navigation Acts were laws
passed that gave England control over trade with the colonies.
mercantalism
Someone who agreed to work for another person in exchange for their passage to the new world. After the period of time was over, the person would be free. Later on, slavery would
replace this system.
indentured servant
Someone who owes someone else money, but cannot pay it back. In England, these people
went to prison. Many of them chose to leave prison to settle the colony of Georgia.
debtor
Fought between England and France. Different groups of Native Americans helped both sides (the Iroquois helped the British). Fought to gain the most power and land. England won. England was now the #1 power in the world, but spent a lot of money to fight this war! She would tax the 13 colonies to get money back!
French and Indian war
Any crop grown in large quantities to be sold. Southern Colonies like Virginia great cash crops like tobacco, rice and later, cotton, to be sold. This usually involved slavery on large farms called plantations.
cash crop
A pattern of trade that connected the 13 Colonies (molasses) to Europe (manufactured
goods), Africa (slaves) and the Caribbean (Molasses)
triangle trade
