Question | Answer |
joint-stock company | They were backed by investors ,people who put money into a project to earn profits. |
charter | a written contract issued by a goverment giving the holder the right to establish a colony |
Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement:named after King James. |
John Smith | a soldier and adventurer who took charge and forced the colonists to work in Jamestown |
indentured servant | men and women sold their labor to the person who paid their passage to Jamestown |
House of Burgesses | First representative assembly in the american colonies |
Bacon's Rebellion | Governor Berkeley refused to approve a war against the native americans to seize the land for tobacco plantations which Natahaniel Bacon demanded:This started the Bacon's Rebellion |
Pilgrims | a separatist group that rejected England's official church |
Mayflower Compact | men aboard the mayflower who signed a contract in which they vowed to obey laws agreed upon for the good colony |
Puritans | religious group that left england to escape bad treatment by king james and wanted to puify the church of englands practices |
Great migration | when puritans left england for america to found new settlements around the world |
Fundamental orders of connecticut | extended voting rights to non-church members,limited the power of the goverment,and expanded the idea of representative government |
Roger Williams | minister is salem miassachusttes who founded the first baptist church in america |
Anne Hutchinson | challenged church authority and beleived a person could worship god without a church minister or bible |
King phillip's war | when the puritans fought a war with the native americans |
Peter Stuyvesant | governor of the dutch colony of New Netherland |
patroon | a person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland |
Duke of York | the brother of king Charles 2 ;owner of New York |
proprietary colony | a colony with a single owner |
William Penn | founded Pennsylvania |
Quaker | welcomes different religions and ethnic groups |
royal colony | a colony rules by governors appointed by a king |
James Oglethorpe | founded georgia as a refuge for debters |