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ch. 3 vocab, butts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| joint-stock company | a 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 a adventure, took control |
| indentured servants | 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 with to men who sailed to america on the mayflower, which called for laws for the good of the colon and set forth the idea of self goverment |
| purtians | a member from the group from england who settled on Massachusetts bay colony in 1630 and sought to reform and practice 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 |
| fundamental orders of connecticut | a set of laws that were established in 1639 by puritans congregation who has settled in the |
| anne hutchinson | conducted discussions in her home that challenged church authority |
| king philip's war | a war between the puritans colonies and the native Americans in 1675-1676 |
| patroon | a person who brought 50 settlers to new Netherlander in return received a large land grant and other special privileges |
| duke of york | became the owner of New york |
| proprietary colony | a colony of a single owner |
| william penn | became another large land owner in america, and joined the quakes |
| quaker | a person who believes that everyone should live in peace and harmony |
| royal colony | a colony ruled by governor appointed by a king |
| james oglethorpe | the founder of Georgia |
| roger williams | a minister in Salem, Massachusetts, who founded the first baptist church in america |
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