History Unit4 Word Scramble
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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 the losses. |
Starving Time | A term referring to the winter of 1609-1610 in Jamestown when 75% of the English Settlers died of Starvation. |
Authority | The power or right to give orders. |
Headright System | The Headright System started by the London Company, Colonists who paid their own way to Virginia recieved 50 acres of land. |
Indentured Servant | A colonist who received free passage to North America. |
Factor | 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 the English Crown bought North and South Carolina in 1729 making them Royal Colonies. |
Priopriatory Colony | A priopriatory colony is for the colonies proprietors or owners they controlled the Government. |
Slave Codes | Laws Passed in the colonies to control slaves. |
Toleration Act of 1649 | A Maryland law that make restricting the religious rights of Christians a crime; The first law guaranteeing religious freedom to be passed in America. |
Representative Government | A form of Government in which citizens elect representativeto 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 misplaced Africans. |
Triangular Trade | Trading Networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, and Africa. |
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