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Vocab. Ch. 3
Vocab. Chpt. 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| joint-stock company | people who put money into a project to earn profits |
| charter | a written contract, issued by a government, giving the holder the right to establish a colony |
| Jamestown | first permanent English settlement |
| 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 represenative assembly in the American colonies |
| Bacon's Rebellion | a revolt against poweful 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 group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to America, and founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620 |
| Mayflower Compact | an agreement astablished by the men who sailed to America on the Mayflower, which called for laws for the good of the colony and set forth the idean of self-government |
| Puritans | 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 form 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 a Puritan congregation who had settled in the Connecticut Valley and that expanded the idea of represenative government |
| Roger Williams | a minister in Salem, Massachusetts, who founded the first Babtist church in America |
| Anne Hutchinson | believed that a person could worship God without the help of a church, minister, or Bible. She conducted discussions in her home. She was forced to leave Massachusetts and fled to Rhode Island in 1638 |
| King Philip's War | a war between the Puritan colonies and Native Americans in 1675-1676 |