Chapter 1 Colonial Foundations Vocabulary PDF

Chapter 1 Colonial Foundations Vocabulary 1. Debtors - people who owe money that they can’t pay. 2. Great Awakening - The Great Awakening was a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s. 3. House of Burgesses - The earliest of t...

Chapter 1 Colonial Foundations Vocabulary 1. Debtors - people who owe money that they can’t pay. 2. Great Awakening - The Great Awakening was a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s. 3. House of Burgesses - The earliest of the elected legislatures had been established shortly after Jamestown’s founding. 4. Indentured Servants - a form of labor where an individual is under contract to work without a salary to repay an indenture or loan within a certain timeframe. 5. Mayflower Compact - an agreement that bound the signers to obey the government and legal system established in Plymouth Colony which remained in effect until they became part of the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1691. 6. Mercantilism - an economic system in which a country attempts to amass wealth through trade with other countries, exporting more than it imports and increasing stores of gold and precious metals. 7. Mid-Atlantic Colonies - New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. 8. Middle Passage - the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies and other parts of the Americas. 9. New England Colonies - Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. 10. Oglethorpe, James - founded Georgia in 1732 as a penal colony and a buffer zone for the Carolinas.