Web Quest

Web Quest Unit 1 Words

1. missionary – Someone sent to persuade other people to join a certain religion
2. viceroy – governor who represents a sovereign in a province or country
3. Northwest Passage – a former region in The United States west of the Mississippi River and North of the Missouri River
4. Samuel De Champlain – was a cartographer and explorer who mapped most of the northeastern North America and started settlement in Quebec
5. charter - is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified
6. joint stock company - is a type of corporation or partnership involving two or more legal persons
7. Powhatan - is the name of a Virginia Indian tribe. It is also the name of a powerful confederacy of tribes which they dominated. The confederacy is estimated to have been about 14,000-21,000 people in eastern Virginia, when the English settled Jamestown in 1607
8. House of Burgess – representative assembly of colonial Virginia formed in 1619
9. Royal Colony – a colony run by a royal governor and council picked by the British crown
10. Proprietary Colony – certain colonies that were granted full rights of self-government
11. Puritan – Another word for Pilgrims, A person who travels a long distance for religious devotion
12. Separatist – A person who separates or withdraws from an established Church
13. Pilgrim – A person who travels a long distance for religious devotion
14. Mayflower Compact – An agreement to establish a government. The agreement enabled them to live in a civil society
15. John Winthrop – First governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, was also a Puritan political leader
16. Pequot War – a war in 1637 between colonists and the Pequot War, resulted in the defeat of the Pequot tribe
17. King Phillip’s War – a war between new England colonists and Indians under their leader King Phillip
18. Bacon’s Rebellion – An uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony as a protest to Indian raids on the frontier and policies of favoritism shown by the Governor of Virginia, William Berkeley
19. Pocahontas - Daughter of a Indian king known for having assisted colonial settlers at Jamestown in present-day Virginia. She was converted to Christianity and married the English settler John Rolfe.
20. Walter Raleigh - was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, and explorer, and was born in a protestant family in Devon.
21. Indentured servant - A person that agreed to work with out been paid for a period of time, in exchange for transportations to the colonies.
22. Triangular trade - a trade between England, West Africa, and American colonies.
23. Magna Carta - A English document from 1215 that limited the power to the king and gave basic rights to the citizens.
24. English Bill of Right - Document signed in 1689 that guaranteed the right of American citizens.
25. Habeas corpus - Constitutional guarantee that no can be hold in prison with charges being filed up
26. Salutary neglect - British policy in early 1700’s which allowed colonies virtual self rule as long as Great Britain was gaining economically.
27. Mercantilism - Economic policies under which a nation accumulates wealth by exporting more goods than it imports.
28. Navigation Act - British trade laws enacted by Parliament during the mid 1700’s that regulated colonial commerce.
29. Enlightenment - Eighteen century movement during which European philosopher believed that society’s problems could be solve by reason and science.
30. Benjamin Franklin - Was one of the Founder of United States of America.
31. George Washington - He was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and the first President of the United States of America.
32. French Indian War - a war fought in 1754 to 1763 in which Britain and its colonies defeated France gaining control of east North America.
33. Pontiac’s Rebellion - up rising in 1763 by Indians in the Great Lakes region.
34. Proclamation of 1763 - Declaration by the English King ordering all colonist to stay in the east of Appalachian mountains
35. Albany Plan of Union - Benjamin Franklin 1754 proposal to create one government for the 13 colonies.
36. Stamp Act - 1756 law passed by Parliament that required colonist to pay taxes on printed material.
37. John Adams - The second president of the United States.
38. Patrick Henry - served as the first post-colonial Governor of Virginia A important person in the American Revolution, is known and remembered for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech
39. Sons of Liberty - organization of colonist formed to act against the stamp act and other British law and taxes
40. non-importation agreement - colonial consumers boycott of British exports as a response to taxes passed by parliaments
41. Boston Massacre - incident on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers killed five colonists in Boston.
42. Committee of correspondence - network of local groups that informed colonist of British measures and the opposition to them.
43. Boston Tea Party - December 16, 1773, protestant against British taxes in which Bostonians and Native Americans dumped tea into the harbor.
44. Intolerable Acts - American name for the Coercive act which parliament passed in 1774 to control de colonies.
45. First Continental Congress - Group of Delegates that met in 1774 and represented all the American colonies except Georgia.
46. Militia - trained citizens who were trained as soldiers to help in case of an emergency,
47. Loyalist - Colonist who remained loyal to Britain during the Revolution
48. Second Continental Congress - assembly of delegates representing every colony that met in 1775 in Philadelphia.
49. George Washington - was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and the first President of the United States of America.
50. Thomas Paine - was an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
51. Declaration of Independence - Document drawn up by the second continental congress that announced American independence and the reason for it.
52. Thomas Jefferson - Was the third president of the United States the author of the document of independence.
53. Natural Rights - universal rights such as life and liberty.
54. Cornwallis - he is best remembered as one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence.
55. Yorktown - a town in Virginia where Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington.
56. Saratoga - A battle in America