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Wilson 8th grade midterm U.S. chapter 3 "The English Establish The 13 Colonies"

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CHARTER   written contract giving the right to establish a colony  
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JOINT-STOCK COMPANY   company funded by a group of investors  
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GREAT MIGRATION   the movement of tens of thousands of English settlers to NEw england during the 1630s  
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ACT OF TOLERATION   MARYLAND LAW THAT FORBADE RELIGOUS PESECUTION  
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HOUSE OF BURGESSES   the Virginia assembly, which was the first representative assemmbly in the American colonies  
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MAYFLOWER COMPACT   document that helped establish the practice of self-goverment  
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FUNDEMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNETICUT   document that has been called the first written consitution in America  
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JAMESTOWN LOCATION   un Virginia, first permanent english settlement in North America, in honor of King James I  
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PURITAIN BELEIFS CONFLICT W/ AMERICAN   wanted to reform church of england,puritains felt threatened by people with other beliefs and many arrguments were formed causing many to leave massachusetts and settle in other New England colonies  
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SOUTHERN ECONOMY   large plantaions formed landowners became rich from exporting cash crops. wealthy elite formed. poorer settlers forced west.  
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FOUNDING OF GEORGIA   james Oglethorpe received charter for Georgia, debtors and poor could make a fresh start, oglethorpe set strict fules.  
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NEW NETHERLAND   Dutch built comony in 1600s along the Hudson River, in what is now New York  
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FOUNDING OF PENNSYLVANIA (BELIEF)   William Penn was given pennsylvania. founded as a place where Quakers could practice their religion because they suffered persecution in colonies and England.  
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PURPOSE OF AMERICAN COLONIZATION   England colonized America for money  
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ROYAL COLONY   colony ruled by the king's appointed officials.  
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PROPRIETARY   colony governed by a single owner  
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