Web Quest Unit 1 Words

missionary: a person sent by a church for a specific purpose
viceroy: a person made to rule a country as a deputy
Northwest Passage: an imaginary passage between the atlantic and pacific
Samuel De Champlain:
charter: a grant from a sovereign power creating a corporation
joint stock company:
Powhatan: Indian chief and father of pocahontas
House of Burgess
Royal Colony
Proprietary Colony
Puritan: group of settlers looking for religious freedom.
Separatist
Pilgrim
Mayflower Compact
John Winthrop
Pequot War
King Phillip’s War
Bacon’s Rebellion
Pocahontas: daughter of chief powhatan
Walter Raleigh
Indentured servant: a person who works in exchange for food and shelter
Triangular trade: trade between the colonies, Europe, and africa
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
Habeas corpus
Salutary neglect
Mercantilism
Navigation Act: document sayin that the colonies can only trade with england
Enlightenment
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
French Indian War
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763
Albany Plan of Union
Stamp Act: a tax by the British on all printed goods
John Adams
Patrick Henry
Sons of Liberty
non-importation agreement
Boston Massacre
committee of correspondence
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
First Continental Congress
militia
Loyalist
Second Continental Congress
George Washington
Thomas Paine
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Natural Rights:rights people are born with.
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Saratoga