chapter 3
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| joint-stock company | business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit
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| indentured servant | a person who sold his/her labor in exchange for passage to America
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| Puritans | a member of a group from England that settled the Mass. Bay Colony in 1630 and sought to reform the practices of the Church of England.
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| William Penn | wealthy Englishman who joined Quakers. King Charles II gave him big piece of land to settle debt; Pennsylvania
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| Roanoke | island off North Carolina; John White traveled there in 1585 and painted scenes of Native American villages
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| charter | a written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony
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| House of Burgessess | created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies
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| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | 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
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| Quaker | a person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnic groups
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| Jamestown | the first permanent English settlement in North America
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| pilgrims | a member of the group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to America, and founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620
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| Royal Colony | a colony ruled by governors appointed by a king
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| John Smith | English soldier and adventurer. Came to Jamestown in 1608
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| Mayflower Compact | an agreement established by the men who sailed to America on the Mayflower, shich called for laws for the good of the colony and set forth the idea of self-government
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| proprietary colony | a colony with a single owner
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| James Oglethorpe | Englishman who founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors in 1732
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