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History Unit #1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| joint-stock company | A business formed by a group of people who jointly make an investment and share in profits and losses. |
| authority | power, right to rule. |
| headright system | colonists who paid their way to Virginia received 50 acres of land. |
| identured servant | a colonist who received free passage to North America, but had to work without pay for a certain number of years. |
| Toleration Act of 1649 | a Maryland law that made restricting the religious rights of Christian a crime. |
| royal colony | a colony that is controlled by the king. |
| proprietary colony | the colony's owner controlled the government. |
| implicate | to be involved and connected with. |
| pluralistic | a society whose many religious, Cultural, and racial groups co-exist. |
| Starving Time | By the spring of 161060 out of 400 colonists survived. |
| assimilate | to take in and incorporate as one's own. |
| charter | an official document that allows someone to establish a colony |
| historian | an authority on history. |
| archeologist | a scientist who studies past human cultures by looking at the clues they left behind. |
| anthropologist | a scientist who studies the origins, characteristics, and customs of humankind. |
| decimate | destroy; kill |
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