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Chapt.3-4 - history
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| William Bradford | born in England and helped settle the Plymouth colony in Massachusetts |
| Charter Colonies | a colony such as Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, or Rhode Island, charted to an individual trading company |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | is the orders that describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and power |
| Joint Stock Companies | an association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock, |
| Massachusetts Bay Company | English chartered company that established Massachusetts Bay colony in New England |
| Mayflower Compact | the first governing contract of the Plymouth colony. |
| James Oglethorpe | was a British general and founder of the colony Georgia |
| Mercantilism | an economic doctrine based on the theory that a nation benefits by accumulating monetary reserves through a positive balance of trade |
| Proprietary Colonies | the 13 colonies which were founded between 1607 and 1733 |
| Puritans | a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline |
| Quakers | members of a family of religious movements collectively known as the religious society of friends |
| Royal Colonies | A colony administered by a royal governor and council appointed by the British crown |
| Separatists | the advocacy of a state of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental, or gender separation from a larger group |
| Roger Williams | born in London, England and founder of Providence, Rhode Island |
| John Winthrop | A wealthy english puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in the founding of the massachusetts bay colony, the first major settlement in New England after plymouth colony |
| Triangle Trade | A business arrangement involving a buyer, seller, and a third-party supplier, made to create lower production cost and lower or free import tariff and to become competitive in exporting |
| Great Awakening | this movement was spurred by a feeling that people had lost their religious faith |
| Magna Carta | was important in the colonization of America as England’s legal system was used as a model for many of the colonies as they were developing their own legal systems |
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