web quest unit 1

Web Quest Unit 1 Words

1. missionary
a. A missionary is a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work.
b. Catholic friars served as missionaries.
2. viceroy
a. a person appointed to rule a country or province as the deputy of the sovereign
b. During the 1530s and 1540s, the Spanish Crown divided the American empire into two immense regions, known as viceroyalties, each ruled by a viceroy appointed by the king.
3. Northwest Passage
a. A sea route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through northwestern America, often sought by early explorers.
b. Explorers in the early 1500s were more interested in finding the Northwest Passage than establishing colonies.
4. Samuel De Champlain
a. French explorer in the Americas: founder of Quebec; first colonial governor.
b. Samuel De Champlain traded with the Montagnais, Algonquin, and Horon Indians.
5. charter
a. A certificate of permission.
b. You need a charter to start a new colony.
6. joint stock company
a. A business venture founded and run by a group of investors who were to share in the company’s profits and losses.
b.
7. Powhatan
a. North American Indian chief in Virginia, father of Pocahontas and founder of the Powhatan Confederacy.
b. Powhatan ate my corn.
8. House of Burgess
a. was the elected lower house in the legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619
b. Modeled after the English Parliament, the House of Burgesses was established in 1619
9. Royal Colony
a. a colon , as New York, administered by a royal governor and council appointed by the British crown, and having a representative assembly elected by the people.
b. The 13 original American colonies were considered royal colonies.
10. Proprietary Colony
a. any of certain colonies that were granted to an individual or group by the British crown and that were granted full rights of self-government
b. Maryland and Pennsylvania were proprietary colonies.
11. Puritan
a. a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
b. The Puritans wanted to purify the Catholic church.
12. Separatist
a. a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
b. Separatists are known to separate from things.
13. Pilgrim
a. A traveler
b. The Pilgrims traveled here on the Mayflower.
14. Mayflower Compact
a. an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620.
b. The Mayflower Compact bound the Pilgrims to live in a civil society according to their own laws.
15. John Winthrop
a. A Puritan political leader of the seventeenth century, born in England.
b. Winthrop was sent to America as the first governor of Massachusetts
16. Pequot War
a. a war in 1637 between Connecticut colonists, aided by British soldiers and friendly Indian tribes, and the Pequot Indians.
b. The Pequot War resulted in the defeat and dispersion of the Pequot tribe.
17. King Phillip’s War
a. an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day southern New England and English colonists and their Native American allies
b. The King Phillip’s War took place for a year.
18. Bacon’s Rebellion
a. an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon, a wealthy planter
b. Bacon’s Rebellion was a protest against Native American raids on the frontier.
19. Pocahontas
a. The daughter of chief Powhatan
b. Pocahontas married John Rolfe.
20. Walter Raleigh
a. was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, and explorer.
b. Walter Raleigh was beheaded at Whitehall
21. Indentured servant
a. a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time
b. Indentured servants included redemptioners, victims of religious or political persecution, persons kidnapped for the purpose, convicts, and paupers.
22. Triangular trade
a. a pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were bought
b. The Triangular trade went through England, Africa, and the Americas.
23. Magna Carta
a. the “great charter” of English liberties
b. The Magna Carta was forced from King John by the English barons and sealed at Runnymede
24. English Bill of Rights
a. an act of the Parliament of England
b. The English Bill of Rights was passed by Parliament in December 1689
25. Habeas corpus
a. a legal action, or writ, through which a person can seek relief from their unlawful detention or that of another person.
b. The Habeas corpus protects individuals from harming themselves or from being harmed by the judicial system.
26. Salutary neglect
a. an undocumented, though long-standing British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws.
b. Salutary neglect was meant to keep the American colonies obedient to Great Britain.
27. Mercantilism
a. an economic theory that holds the prosperity of a nation is dependent upon its supply of capital
b. Mercantilism was the dominant school of thought in Europe throughout the late Renaissance and early modern period.
28. Navigation Act
a. any of several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain.
b. The Navigation Act bill was passed in October 1651 by the Parliament.
29. Enlightenment
a. the state of being enlightened
b. The book, Common Sense, brought about much enlightenment.
30. Benjamin Franklin
a. American statesman, diplomat, author, scientist, and inventor.
b. Benjamin Franklin’s numerous scientific and practical innovations include the lightning rod, bifocal spectacles, and a stove.
31. George Washington
a. The first president of the United States.
b. George Washington was the commanding general of the victorious American army in the Revolutionary War.
32. French Indian War
a. the war in America in which France and its Indian allies opposed England
b. The French Indian War was ended by the Treaty of Paris.
33. Pontiac’s Rebellion
a. a war launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes
b. Pontiac’s Rebellion began in May 1763 when Native Americans, offended by the policies of British General Jeffrey Amherst, attacked a number of British forts and settlements.
34. Proclamation of 1763
a. proclamation to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier.
b. The Proclamation of 1763 continues to be of legal importance to First Nations in Canada.
35. Albany Plan of Union
a. The plan Benjamin Franklin had to unify the colonies.
b. The Albany Plan of Union was denied.
36. Stamp Act
a. an act of the British Parliament for raising revenue in the American Colonies by requiring the use of stamps and stamped paper for official documents, commercial writings, and various articles
b. The Stamp Act met with extreme opposition.
37. John Adams
a. 2nd president of the U.S. 1797–1801: a leader in the American Revolution.
b. John Adams was also the first vice president of the United States.
38. Patrick Henry
a. American patriot, orator, and statesman
b. A member of the House of Burgesses and the Continental Congress Patrick Henry spurred the creation of the Virginia militia with his words "Give me liberty, or give me death."
39. Sons of Liberty
a. any of several patriotic societies, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
b. The Sons of Liberty were originally secret.
40. non-importation agreement
a.
41. Boston Massacre
a. a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons.
b. The British fired into a crowd that was threatening them, killing five, during the Boston Massacre.
42. committee of correspondence
a. an intercolonial committee in Massachusetts to keep colonists informed of British anticolonial actions and to plan colonial resistance or countermeasures.
b. The committee of correspondence was organized by Samuel Adams in 1772
43. Boston Tea Party
a. a raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company.
b. The Boston Tea Party was an act of defiance toward the British government by American colonists.
44. Intolerable Acts
a. A series of laws passed by the British in 1774in an attempt to punish Mass. for the Boston Tea Party.
b. Resentment of the Intolerable Acts contributed to the outbreak of the American revolution.
45. First Continental Congress
a. a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
b. The First Continental Congress met briefly to consider options, including an economic boycott of British trade; publish a list of rights and grievances; and petition King George for redress of those grievances.
46. Militia
a. An army composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers
b. The history of militia in the United States dates from the colonial era, such as in the American Revolutionary War.
47. Loyalist
a. a person who remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution
b. Some of the loyalists eventually moved to Canada
48. Second Continental Congress
a. a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
b. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved slowly towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 2, 1776.
49. George Washington
50. Thomas Paine
a. an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
b. Thomas Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 in time to participate in the American Revolution.
51. Declaration of Independence
a. a statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire.
b. Primarily, the Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson.
52. Thomas Jefferson
a. the third President of the United States
b. Thomas Jefferson envisioned America as the force behind a great "Empire of Liberty" that would promote republicanism and counter the imperialism of the British Empire.
53. Natural Rights
a. any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
b. The Declaration of Independence of the United States lists life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as natural rights.
54. Cornwallis
a. British general and statesman
b. Cornwallis surrendered to Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, October 19, 1781.
55. Yorktown
a. a village in SE Virginia
b. Yorktown's place in history was assured by the siege and surrender there of British forces under General Lord Cornwallis in 1781, an event that virtually assured an American victory in the American Revolution.
56. Saratoga
a. A former village of eastern New York on the west bank of the Hudson River east of Saratoga Springs.
b.