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Ch.3 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Companies that are backed by investors to split both profits and losses. | joint-stock company |
| A government-issued contract allowing the settlement of a colony for the holder. | charter |
| The first permanent successful English settlement in America in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London. | Jamestown |
| An English man who established control over Jamestown in 1608 and ensured survival until his return to England in 1609. | John Smith |
| Settlers who work for the one who pays their passage to America for several years until they are released. | indentured servant |
| The first representative assembly in the 13 colonies formed by Virginia in 1619. | House of Burgesses |
| A revolt of the poor, frontier farmers against Governor William Berkeley for the refusal of a proposal in 1676. | Bacon's Rebellion |
| A Separatist group, prosecuted by King James, that fled on the Mayflower to Plymouth, Massachusetts. | Pilgrims |
| A document listing the laws of Plymouth and the settlers' obedience since the original charter was for Virginia, not Massachusetts. | Mayflower Compact |
| A religious group wanting to purify the Church of England and fled to Massachusetts well-supplied. No starving time. | Puritans |
| The time where many Puritans emigrated from England due to prosecution. | Great Migration |
| A constitution-like set of laws for Connecticut that extended voting rights to non-church citizens and limited power of the governor. | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
| A man who founded Rhode Island in 1636, separated church and state, and guaranteed religious freedom for his colony. He left Massachusetts. | Roger Williams |
| A woman who believed that a church, minister, and bible were not necessary for worship and she fled to Rhode Island from Massachusetts in 1638. | Anne Hutchinson |
| A war in 1675-1676 where the leader of the Wampanoag, Metacom, fought Puritan colonies in response to land claims. Metacom lost. | King Philip's War |
| The Dutch governor of New Netherlands who lost support of the settlers and was forced to surrender the colony to the Duke of York. | Peter Stuyvesant |
| A person who brought 50 settlers for the Dutch and received a land grant plus special privileges on his land. | patroon |
| King Charles II's brother who captured New Netherlands and became the proprietor of New York. | Duke of York |
| A colony owned by private owners who make the laws for the colony. | proprietary colony |
| A Quaker who received a large land grant from the King for a debt and placed a morality of harmony/equality among his settlers. | William Penn |
| A religious group opposed to war that believes that all people should live in harmony and peace. | Quaker |
| A colony ruled by a governor appointed by the King. | royal colony |
| The founder of Georgia for debtors and disliked by his settlers so Georgia became a royal colony. | James Oglethorpe |
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