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chapter 3 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| joint-stock company | people who put money into a project for 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 | those who could not afford passage to America |
| House of Burgesses | created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the Amercan 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 collony 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 he colony and set forth the idea of self-government |
| puritans | a member of a group from england that settled the massachusetts bay colony in 1630and 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 fro america; the movement of african americans between 1910 and 1920 to northern cities from the south |
| fundemental orders of connecticut | |
| roger williams | |
| anne hutchinson | |
| king philip's war |
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