Era 2 Vocabulary Menu

Jamestown

• a historic site in east Virginia (also spelled Jamestowne)
• first permanent English settlement in North America

King James I

• king of Scotland from 1567-1625 and first Stuart king of England from 1603-1625
• strong advocate of royal absolutism

Virginia Colony

• chartered in 1606 and settled in 1607; was the first enduring English colony in North America
• one of the first original 13 colonies located on the Atlantic coast of North America (one of the Southern colonies)

John Smith

• (1580-1631) English explorer and early leader of the Jamestown Colony

Tobacco

• refers to leaves and other parts of certain South American plants that were domesticated and used by North Americans for the alkaloid Nicotine
• sometimes used to smoke

Cash Crop

• an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit
• example is cotton, coffee, cocoa, sugarcane, tea

indentured Servant

• a person who signs and is bound by indentures to work for another for a specific time

Slavery

• another word: enslavement
• state and condition of being a slave in which someone is forced to quit service for another person and is to work as a slave

House of Burgess

• elected representative of the Virginia General Assembly

Middle Colonies

• Includes New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

William Penn

• writer, early member of the Religious Society of Friends, and founder of the colony of the Province of Pennsylvania

New England Colonies

• Includes Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut
• Massachusetts took the land of present day Maine

Pilgrims

• people who journey to sacred places for religious reasons

Plymouth Colony

• English colonial venture in America to get to a place previously surveyed

John Winthrop

• English Puritan lawyer and a figure in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony

joint-stock

• forerunner of the modern corporization that was organized for undertaking requiring large amounts of capital

Middle Passage

• stage of a triangular trade in which africans were shipped to the new world

Southern Colonies

• North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia

french and indian war

• pitted colonies of british americans against french