The legal right/custom of the firstborn child to inherit all or most of their parents' estate and succession to rule.

1661 - legally defined enslaved Africans as "chattel property" establishing that masters could treat them as goods and personal estate.

Law passed by a gov't to grant freedom of worship to religious minorities who do not belong to the official state church.

A business entity owned by multiple investors who hold shares of stock proportional to their financial investment.

Is a formal written document that grants powers, rights or privileges to a city, group or organization or the act of rending a vehicle for exclusive use.

An official systematic count of a population along with the collection of related demographic, economic, and social data.

A medieval economic, social, political system where landowners (lords) gave protection and land to tenants (peasants/vassals) in exchange for labor, loyalty and military service.

A worker who signs a contract to work without a salary for a fixed number of years in exchange for travel, clothing, food and shelter

A person who occupies a building or land without legal permission, a lease, or ownership rights.

A place or process where different people cultures, or ideas blend together to form a cohesive whole.

An early attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to establish the first permanent English settlement in North America on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina.

A massive 130 ship naval fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England but were defeated by the English marking an important turning point because started Protestant England's rise as a global sea power and decline of Catholic Spain.

A formal document signed by a monarch that creates an organization and gives it special powers, rights and a separate legal identity.

A series of three distinct conflicts fought in the 1600s between English settlers in the Colony of Virginia at Jamestown and the Powhatan Confederacy of Virginia Native Americans which led to the English control over Virginia and further expansion,

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Chapter 2

Unit 1: Founding the New Nation (33 BCE - 1783 CE)

Question	Answer
Primogeniture	The legal right/custom of the firstborn child to inherit all or most of their parents' estate and succession to rule.
Barbados slave code	1661 - legally defined enslaved Africans as "chattel property" establishing that masters could treat them as goods and personal estate.
Act of Toleration	Law passed by a gov't to grant freedom of worship to religious minorities who do not belong to the official state church.
Joint Stock Company	A business entity owned by multiple investors who hold shares of stock proportional to their financial investment.
Charter	Is a formal written document that grants powers, rights or privileges to a city, group or organization or the act of rending a vehicle for exclusive use.
Census	An official systematic count of a population along with the collection of related demographic, economic, and social data.
Feudal	A medieval economic, social, political system where landowners (lords) gave protection and land to tenants (peasants/vassals) in exchange for labor, loyalty and military service.
Indentured Servant	A worker who signs a contract to work without a salary for a fixed number of years in exchange for travel, clothing, food and shelter
Squatter	A person who occupies a building or land without legal permission, a lease, or ownership rights.
Melting Pot	A place or process where different people cultures, or ideas blend together to form a cohesive whole.
Roanoke Colony	An early attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to establish the first permanent English settlement in North America on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina.
Spanish Armada	A massive 130 ship naval fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England but were defeated by the English marking an important turning point because started Protestant England's rise as a global sea power and decline of Catholic Spain.
Royal Charter	A formal document signed by a monarch that creates an organization and gives it special powers, rights and a separate legal identity.
Anglo-Powhatan Wars	A series of three distinct conflicts fought in the 1600s between English settlers in the Colony of Virginia at Jamestown and the Powhatan Confederacy of Virginia Native Americans which led to the English control over Virginia and further expansion,

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