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Joint Stock Company | A business formed by a group of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses |
Starving Time | A term referring to the winter of 1609 1610 in Jamestown when 75% of the English settlers died of starvation and disease |
Authority | The power to enforce laws give orders or make descisions |
Headright system | colonist who paid their own way to Virginia received 50 acres of land. A COLONIST COULD EARN ANOTHER 50 Acres for every additional person brought from england |
Indentured Servannt | a colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years |
Factors | A circumstance or fact that contributes to a result or outcome |
Bacon's Rebellion | an attack led by Nathaniel bacon against American Indians and the colonial government in virginia |
Religious persecution | the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group because of their religious beliefs |
Refuge | protection or shelter from danger or hardship |
Royal Colony | When a place is high in power it becomes a royal colony |
Proprietary colony | A colony strict about its land and has certain land that cannot be taken or crossed over |
Slave codes | laws passed in the colonies to control slaves |
Toleration Act of 1649 | A Maryland loaw that made restricting the religious rights of Christians a crime the first aw guaranteeing religious freedom to be passed in America |
Representative Government | a from of government in which citizens elect representatives to make decisions and laws for them |
Middle Passage | a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies |
African Diaspora | the population of displaced Africans and their descendants around the world |
Triangular Trade | trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England the American colonies and Africa |