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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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