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Chapter 3 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| joint-stock company | people who invest in a company for 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 soildier and adventurer who made people would'nt let people eat if they didn't work |
| indentured servent | a person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America |
| House of Burgesses | created in 1619, the 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 |
| Pilgrams | 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 of 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 Migartion | the movement of Puritans from England to establish settlements around the world, including 20,000 who sailed for America |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | set of laws that were established in1639 by a Puritan congregation who had settled in the Connecticut Valley and that expanded the ida of representative government |
| Roger Williams | a minister in Salem, Massachusetts who founded the first Baptist church in America |
| Anne Hutchinson | believed that a person could worship God without the help of a church, minister, or Bible |
| King Philips's War | a war between the Puritan colonies and Native American in 1866 |
| Peter Stuyvesant | was a governor but soon lost that job because of his harsh personality and rough manner |
| patroon | a person who brought 50 setlers to New Netherlands and in return received a large lang grant and other special privileges |
| Duke of York | his brother King Charles II decieded that he shold drive the Dutch out of New Netherlands |
| proprietary colony | a colony with single owner |
| William Penn | a large land owner in America |
| 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 |
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