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Chapter 1 Vocabulary
US History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| joint-stock company | business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit |
| charter | written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony |
| Jamestown | first permanent English settlement in North America |
| John Smith | a soldier and adventurer that took control of Jamestown, he also persuaded the Powhatten tribe to trade corn to the colonists |
| indentured servant | a person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America |
| House of Burgesses | created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American 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 Colony 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 the colony and set fourth the idea of self-government |
| Puritans | a member of 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 from England to establish settlements |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | 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 representative government |
| Roger Williams | founded the first Baptist church in America |
| Anne Hutchunson | believed that a person could worship God without the help of a church, minister or Bible |
| King Phillip's War | 1675-1664 the Puritan colonies fought a brutal war with the Native Americans |
| Peter Stuyvesant | the new governor of the colony of New Netherland from 1647-1664 |
| patroon | a person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland and in return received a large land grant and other special privileges |
| Duke of York | King Charles 12nd decided that his brother should drive the Dutch out of New Netherland |
| proprietary colony | a colony with a single owner |
| William Penn | became another large landowner in America and was born into a wealthy English family |
| Quakers | a person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnic groups |
| royal colony | a colony ruled by governors appointed by a king |
| James Oglethorpe | in 1732 he founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors |
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