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Ch. 3 vocabulary SA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit. | joint-stock company |
| a written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony. | charter |
| the first permanent English settlement in North America. | Jamestown |
| was a soldier and adventurer, took control, built a wall, and convinced the Powhatan tribe to trade. | John Smith |
| a person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America. | indentured servant |
| created on 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies. | House of Burgesses |
| a revolt agaisnt powerful colonial authority in Jamestown by Nathaniel Bacon and a group of landless frontier settlers that resulted in the burning of Jamestown in 1676. | Bacon's Rebellion |
| a member of the group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to America, and founded the Plymouth colony in 1620. | Pilgrims |
| an agreement established by the men who sailed to America on the Mayflower, which called for laws for the good of the colony and set forth the idea of self-government. | Mayflower Compact |
| a member of a group from England that settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and sought to reform the practices of the Church of England. | Puritans |
| the movement of Puritans from England to establish settlements around the world, including 20,000 who sailed for America; the movement of African Americans between 1910 and 1920 to northern cities from the South. | Great Migration |
| a set of laws that were established in 1639 by a Puritan congregation who had settled in the Connecticut Valley and that expanded the idea of representative government. | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
| was a minister in Salem and founded the first Baptist church in America. He opposed forced attendence and giving away Native American land. He later found Rhode Island after he was kicked out and fled. | Roger Williams |
| believed that anyone could worship God whenever and however. She later fled to Rhode Island. | Anne Hutchinson |
| a war between the Puritan colonies and Native Americans. | King Phillip's War |
| governor of New Netherlands, harsh manner and soon lost support of Dutch completely, forcing him-self later to surrender to the British. | Peter Stuyvesant |
| a person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland and in return received a large land grant and other special privileges. | patroon |
| he was sent to drive the Dutch out of New Netherland, but they later surrended. He later became the propreitor of New Netherland. | Duke of York |
| a colony with a single owner. | proprietary colony |
| He was wealthy, he joined the Quakers. King Charles 2 owed him, so he gave him Pennsylvania. There he thrieved for equality to all and even granted Delaware's three lower counties an assembly. | William Penn |
| a person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnic groups. | Quaker |
| a colony ruled by governors appointed by a king. | royal colony |
| founded Georgia which was a refuge for debtors. All religions were allowed. He later became strict and upset the colonists. This caused them to make it a royal colony. | James Oglethorpe |
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