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Thirteen Colonies
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Question | Answer |
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Early form of modern corporation in which many people invested in colonies by buying stocks | joint stock company |
Person who agreed to work for another, usually for 7 years, in exchange for passage to the New World | indentured servant |
system for distributing land to colonists based on the number of people they brought to New World | headright system |
firsts permanent settlement in the New World (1607) | Jamestown, VA |
Eight English royalist who were given the Carolina colony as a gift from Charles II | Eight Lord Proprietors |
mother country of the 13 colonies | England |
Religious group known as Society of Friends; settled the Pennsylvania colony | Quakers |
Carolina's first written law | Fundamental Constitution of Carolina |
Three regions of the 13 colonies | New England, Middle, and Southern |
extremely strict religious group that wanted to purify the church; largest group in New England area | Puritans |
first permanent settlers of Carolina came from this British colony | Barbados |
Region of colonies founded mainly as a safe haven for religious groups | New England colonies |
colonies with greatest diversity of people and religions; the "breadbasket" of the colonies | Middle colonies |
colonies defined by large plantations and slavery | Southern colonies |
authors of the Fundamental Constitution of Carolina | Lord A.Ashley Cooper and John Locke |
Fundamental Constitution of Carolina gave power to those who owned | LAND |
Pros of Fundamental Constitution of Carolina | 1. gave freedom of religion and 2. supposed to protect citizens rights |
Cons of Fundamental Constitution of Carolina | allowed/permitted slavery |