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Chapter 3 Vocab. TM
Question | Answer |
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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 |
a soldier and adventurer that took control of Jamestown, making sure everyone worked by stating "He that will not work shall not eat", and persuaded the the Powhatans to trade their corn until he got injured in 1609 and returned to England | John Smith |
a person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America | indentured servant |
created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies | House of Burgesses |
a revolt against 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 |
members 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 |
members 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 | 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 |
a minister in Salem, Massachusetts who founded the first Baptist church in America, opposed forced attendance at church, and the English colonists' taking Indian land by force. He was forced to leave and founded the colony of Rhode Island in 1636 | Roger Williams |
she believed that a person can worship God without a church and was forced to leave Massachusetts because of that. She fled to Rhode Island in 1638 | Anne Hutchinson |
A war between the Puritan colonies and Native Americans in 1675-1676 | King Philip's War |
the governor of New Netherland in 1647 who surrendered to British control in 1664 | Peter Stuyvesant |
a person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland and in return received a large land grant and other special privileges | patroon |
the brother of King Charles the second that made the colony of New Netherland to surrender in 1664. He became the owner of the newly named New York | Duke of York |
a colony with a single owner | proprietary colony |
a large landowner that became a Quaker and received the land of Pennsylvania from King Charles the second | 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 |
he founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors in 1732 that set strict rules upon the colonists | James Oglethorpe |