Web Quest Unit 1 Words

1. missionary-A person that goes to convert people in other countries to their religion.
viceroy-In colonial Spanish America ,the king appointed official who governs a country.
Northwest Passage-A passage that never existed.
Samuel De Champlain
charter-A document that gives a person rights.
joint stock company-A company that is ran by a group of people who shared the money.
Powhatan
House of Burgess-An assembly that was formed in 1619 in Virginia.
Royal Colony-A colony that is controlled by a king or queen.
Proprietary Colony-A colony that is giving to someone by the king/queen.
Puritan-people who have strong religious beliefs.
Separatist-A group of people who didn’t want to be part of the Anglican Church, and start their own.
Pilgrim -the first people that found Plymouth colony.
Mayflower Compact-A document that was signed on the mayflower for self-government.
John Winthrop-He led a large group of puritans to America in 1630 to make a new colony.
Pequot War-It started because the puritans accused the pequots of killing a English trader.
King Phillip’s War- a war between native Americans and new England.
Bacon’s Rebellion-
Pocahontas
Walter Raleigh
Indentured servant-someone who is a slave and released after a certain amount of years.
Triangular trade-A trade of goods from England, America, and Africa
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights-In 1689 a bill was signed allowing English citizens to have rights.
Habeas corpus-A constitution stating that no one can be held in prison without being charged.
Salutary neglect-A policy in British which allowed the colonist to self rule.
Mercantilism-Exporting more goods than importing to make more money.
Navigation Act-British trade laws in the mid 1700’s
Enlightenment-A way of trying to solve problems by reasoning and science.
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
French Indian War
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763
Albany Plan of Union
Stamp Act-Law passed that the colonist had to start paying taxes on printed material.
John Adams
Patrick Henry
Sons of Liberty-The colonist formed an organization against stamp act and other British laws and taxes.

non-importation agreement-
Boston Massacre-On march 5 the British killed five Boston colonists.
committee of correspondence
Boston Tea Party-Boston natives dressed up as Indians and dumped tea in the harbor because it was being taxed by the British.
Intolerable Acts-A parliament passed in 1774 to control the colonies.
First Continental Congress
Militia-Citizen that fight during an emergency.
Loyalist-The colonist who stayed loyal to Britain in the revolution.
Second Continental Congress-Delegates that represented the colony that met in Philadelphia in 1775.
George Washington-he was the first president of the United States.
Thomas Paine-The author of an American best seller “common sense”
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson-
Natural Rights-Rights that we are born with.
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Saratoga