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Chapter 3 vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Joint-stock company | business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit. |
| charter | a written contract, issued by a government, giving the holder the right to establish a colony. |
| Jamestown | the first permanent English settlement in North America. |
| John Smith | a soldier and adventurer. |
| indentured servant | a person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America. |
| house of Burgesses | created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American Colonies. |
| Bacon's Rebellion | a revolt against powerful colonial authority in Jamestown by Nathaniel Bacon and a group of landless frontier settlers that resulted in the burning of Jamestown in 1676. |
| Pilgrims | a member of the group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to America, and founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620. |
| Mayflower Compact | an agreement established by the men who sailed to America on the Mayflower, which called for laws for the good for the colony and set forth the idea of self-government. |
| Puritans | a member of a group from England that settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and sought to reform the practices of the church of England. |
| Great Migration | the movement of puritans from England to establish settlements around the world, including 20,000 who sailed for America; the movement of Africa Americans between 1910 and 1920 the northern cities from the South. |
| Fundamental oreders 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. |
| Roger Williams | he was a minister in Salem, Massachusetts, who founded the first baptsit church. Because of his beliefs he was forced to leave Jamestown. In 1636 he founded his own colony of Rhode Island. |
| Anne Hutchinson | she believed that a person could worship God without the help of a church, minister, or Bible. She was forced to leave Massachusetts. In 1638 and fled to Rhode Island. |
| King Phillip's War | a war between the puritan colonies and the Native Americans in 1675-1676. |
| Peter Styvesant | he was the new governor and arrived at New Amsterdam on May 1647. He surrendered to British control because of his harsh personality and rough manner. |
| patroon | a person who brought 50 settlers the New Netherland and in return received a large land grant and other special privileges. |
| Duke of York | England's King Charles (the second) decided that his brother, the duke of York, should be the new proprietor, or owner, of the colony. |
| proprietary colony | a colony with a single owner. |
| William Penn | king Charles (the second)gave him some land because he owed him money (Pennsylvania). He used this land to create a colony where quakers could live according to their beliefs. |
| Quaker | a person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnic groups. |
| royal colony | a colony ruled by governors appointed by a king. |
| James Oglethorpe | founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors. He set strict rules that upset the colonists. The king, in response to unrest, made Georgia a royal colony in 1752. |
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