https://padlet.com/3044411/61k6r0tl1q1m Made with panache en-us 2017-08-25 19:32:22 UTC 2017-08-25 19:47:26 UTC hello@padlet.com 3044411 https://padlet.com/3044411/61k6r0tl1q1m/wish/182893179 Jamestown definition. The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607 in Virginia. Jamestown was named for King James I of England. It was destroyed later in the seventeenth century in an uprising of Virginians against the governor.

]]> 2017-08-25 19:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/3044411/61k6r0tl1q1m/wish/182893179 3044411 https://padlet.com/3044411/61k6r0tl1q1m/wish/182893221 n English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631) Synonyms: John Smith, Smith Example of: adventurer, explorer. someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)

]]> 2017-08-25 19:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/3044411/61k6r0tl1q1m/wish/182893221 3044411 https://padlet.com/3044411/61k6r0tl1q1m/wish/182894275 proper noun. (c.1595–1617), North American Indian princess, daughter of Powhatan, an Algonquian chief in Virginia. According to John Smith, an English colonist, Pocahontas rescued him from death at the hands of her father.

]]> 2017-08-25 19:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/3044411/61k6r0tl1q1m/wish/182894275 3044411 https://padlet.com/3044411/61k6r0tl1q1m/wish/182894316 indentured servant definition. A person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a new country. During the seventeenth century most of the white laborers in Maryland and Virginia came from England as indentured servants.

]]> 2017-08-25 19:40:44 UTC https://padlet.com/3044411/61k6r0tl1q1m/wish/182894316 3044411 https://padlet.com/3044411/61k6r0tl1q1m/wish/182894360 Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.

]]> 2017-08-25 19:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/3044411/61k6r0tl1q1m/wish/182894360 3044411 https://padlet.com/3044411/61k6r0tl1q1m/wish/182894420 The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the ActConcerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians. It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony, in St. Mary's City.

]]> 2017-08-25 19:41:18 UTC https://padlet.com/3044411/61k6r0tl1q1m/wish/182894420 3044411 https://padlet.com/3044411/61k6r0tl1q1m/wish/182894457 Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), known in his lifetime as Gustavus Vassa (/ˈvæsə/), was a prominent African in London, a freed slave who supported the British movement to end the slave trade.

]]> 2017-08-25 19:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/3044411/61k6r0tl1q1m/wish/182894457 3044411 https://padlet.com/3044411/61k6r0tl1q1m/wish/182894485 Slaves codes were state laws established to determine the status ofslaves and the rights of their owners. Slave codes placed harsh restrictions on slaves' already limited freedoms, often in order to preempt rebellion or escape, and gave slave owners absolute power over their slaves.

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