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Term | Definition |
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John Smith | leader of the jamestown colony |
jamestown | first permanent english settlement in North America |
House of Burgesses | the virginia assembly which was the first representative assembly in the american colonies |
joint stock company | company funded by a group of investors |
investor | person who puts money into a project to earn a profit |
royal colony | colony ruled by the kings appointed officials |
sir walter raleigh | founder of englands first colony |
mercantilism | economic system that european nations used to enrich their treasures |
headright | land grant given to one who could pay his or her way to the colonies |
indentured servant | one who worked for a set time without pau in exchange for a free passage to america |
charter | written contract giving the right to establish a colony |
congregation | group of people who belong to the same church |
Banish | to force someone to leave a place |
puritans | english dissenters who wanted to reform the church of england |
great migration | the movement of tens of thousands of english settlers to new england during the 1630s |
Rodger Williams | puritan dissenter who established Rhode Island |
Anne Hutchinson | Puritan dissenter who was banished from Massachusetts |
Fundamental orders of Connecticut | document that has been called the first written constitution in america |
Quakers | group of protestant dissenters |
tolerance | acceptance of different opinions |
pilgrams | separatist group that traveled to america to gain religious freedom |
Mayflower Compact | document that helped establish the practice of self-government |
John Winthrop | Puritan leader who became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
Dissenter | Person who disagrees with an official church |
Persecute | To mistreat. |
magaret brent | attorney of the govover of maryland |
lord baltimore | catholic owner of the colony of maryland |
Act of Toleration | Maryland law that forbade religious persecution |
Huguenots | French protestents |
James Oglethrope | The founder of Georgia |
Proprietary Colony | Colony governed by a single owner or propeietor |
Elite | Highest ranking social group |
Diversity | Variety |
Region | Distinct area of land |
Tidewater | flat land along the coast |
William Penn | Quaker Founder of Pennsylvania |
Peter Stuyvesant | Governer of the dutch colony of New Netherland |
New Netherland | Dutch colony that later became New York |
Patroon | Person rewarded with a large land grant for bringing 50 settlers to New Netherland |