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| Joint Stock Company/Corporation |
Corporation that people invest in hoping that the exploration or colony financed will make a profit. |
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| Charter |
Document (a formal paper) that gives a group of people the right to establish (make) a colony. |
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| Quaker |
Believed that all people were equal in God's eyes. Settled Pennsylvania and created a colony where all had political and religious freedom. |
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| Religious Toleration |
Being tolerant(accepting) of all religions. |
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| Puritan |
Protestant reformer people who wanted change) who wanted to "purify" the church. They were kicked out of England and settled in Massachusetts. |
Purify: reform or change |
| Pilgrim |
Protestant reformer who wanted to simplify the church. They settled in Plymouth. |
Protestant: People who chose to be separated from the Church. |
| House of Burgess |
Representative assembly (group of people) in Virginia. The first representative body in the English colonies. |
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| Mayflower Compact |
Document drawn up by the Pilgrims before getting off the Mayflower that told how the colony would be governed. |
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| New England Town Meetings |
Democratic meetings where the people in the town got to vote on local issues. |
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| Mayflower Compact |
1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth colony. It established the precedent of democratic rule in the English colonies. |
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| Witch Trials |
Putting a group of people on trial as "scape goats" to explain why something bad is happening. |
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| Triangular Trade |
Illegal trade between the colonies and Europe, Asia and Africa. England didn't shut it down since they were making a lot of money off of it. |
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| Mercantilism |
Economic policy that states that colonies exist for the financial(money) benefit of the mother country. |
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| Democracy |
Political system where people have a say in electing representatives and making laws. |
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| Indentured Servant |
Person who trades their labor in order to learn a trade or pay for a trip to the colonies. |
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| Immigration |
Moving to a new country permanently. |
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| Emmigration |
Leaving your old country to move somewhere else. |
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| Navigation Acts |
Laws established by England in the 1660's to regulate(control) colonial trade. |
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| Representative |
A person who stands or acts for a larger group, the person is chosen from the group by an election. |
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| Peninsula |
a portion of land nearly surrounded by water and connected with a larger body |
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| Contaminate (ed) |
to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association, such as a bacteria |
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| Native |
belonging to a particular place by birth |
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| Deteriorate (ed) |
to become impaired in quality, functioning, or condition |
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| Passage |
a specific act of traveling or passing especially by sea or air |
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| Servitude |
: a right by which something (as a piece of land) owned by one person is subject to a specified use or enjoyment by another |
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| Lower class |
people who had less money, education |
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| Merchant ship |
the operator of a retail business travels between ports (cities) to sell their goods |
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| Decade (s) |
a group or set of 10: as a: a period of 10 years |
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| Accommodate |
to provide (give)a person with something that is desired or needed, to live or do a job. |
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| Inhabitant |
a person that occupies a particular place, such as a house, city, or state for a period of time |
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| Original |
first, the first group of people, or the first person to do something |
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| Conquest |
territory appropriated in war, land won after fighting for it in a war |
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| Mestizo |
mixed groups of people, such as Spanish and English people living together |
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| Migrate (ed) |
to move from one country, place, or locality to another place |
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