https://padlet.com/304547/pkybcswro5pw Made with mirth en-us 2017-08-25 19:29:45 UTC 2017-08-25 19:49:50 UTC hello@padlet.com 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/pkybcswro5pw/wish/182892676 Jamestown definition. The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607 in Virginia. Jamestown was named for King James I of England.]]> 2017-08-25 19:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/pkybcswro5pw/wish/182892676 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/pkybcswro5pw/wish/182892733 Noun. 1. John Smith - English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631) Captain John Smith, Smith.]]> 2017-08-25 19:31:17 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/pkybcswro5pw/wish/182892733 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/pkybcswro5pw/wish/182892796 Matoaka means "Bright Stream Between the Hills"; Amonute cannot be translated. ... Pocahontas, as a Powhatan marrying an Englishman, may have been seen by herself and by her contemporaries as being also, potentially, a matriarchal figure of two distinct peoples.]]> 2017-08-25 19:31:39 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/pkybcswro5pw/wish/182892796 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/pkybcswro5pw/wish/182892846 Indentured servants were men and women who signed a contract (also known as an indenture or a covenant) by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter.]]> 2017-08-25 19:31:58 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/pkybcswro5pw/wish/182892846 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/pkybcswro5pw/wish/182892896 Bacon's Rebellion. noun. 1. an unsuccessful uprising by frontiersmen in Virginia in 1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colonial government in Jamestown.]]> 2017-08-25 19:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/pkybcswro5pw/wish/182892896 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/pkybcswro5pw/wish/182892948 The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the ActConcerning Religion, was a law mandating religioustolerance 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 19:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/pkybcswro5pw/wish/182892948 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/pkybcswro5pw/wish/182892992 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 19:32:47 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/pkybcswro5pw/wish/182892992 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/pkybcswro5pw/wish/182893050 Slaves codes were state laws established to determine the status of slaves and the rights of their owners. Slave codes placed harsh restrictions onslaves' already limited freedoms, often in order to preempt rebellion or escape, and gave slave owners absolute power over their slaves.

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