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Question | Answer |
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Charter | an official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony |
joint-stock-company | a business formed by a group of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses |
headright system | the colonist who paid their way to Virgina received 50 acres of land for every additional person they brought from England. |
indentured servant | a colonist who received a free passage to north America in exchange for working with out pay for a certain amount of years |
toleration act of 1649 | a maryland law made restricting the religious rights of Christians in a crime; the first law guaranteeing religious freedom to be passed in America |
Royal colony | colony that was created pusuant to a charter granted by the English Crown controlled by a governor appointed by the crown |
Proprietary colony | colony under which the colony's proprietors, or owners, controlled the colony's government |
Established church | a church that is recognized as the official church of a nation |
Mayflower Compact | a document written by the pilgrims in 1620 establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self government |
Puritans | Protestants who wanted reform the church of England |
Pilgrims/Separatists | a member of a Puritan/ Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600 to settle in the Americas |
Religious Persecution | the mistreatment of a person or group because of thier beliefs or religion |
Religious Tolerance | the willingness to let others practice their own beliefs |
Historian | a person who studies history? |
Archeologist | the scientific study of prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts, inscriptions, monuments and more |
Anthropologist | ? |