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history p.4 unit 4-1
4-1
Question | Answer |
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joint stock company | a business formed by a group of people who jointly make an investment and share in its profits and loses |
starving time | |
authority | |
Headright system | colonist paid their own way to virginia and recieved 50 acres of land also, got 50 acres of land for slaves or a servant or family |
indentured servant | a colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain amount of years |
factor | a crop broker who managed the trade between southern planters and their customers |
Bacon's Rebellion | an attack led by nathaniel bacon against american indians and the colonial government in virginia |
religious persecution | mistreatment to a person because of their religious beliefs |
refuge | a safe place |
Royal colony | |
proprietary colony | |
slave codes | laws passed in colonies to control slaves |
toleration act of 1649 | a maryland law that made restricting religious rights of a christian rights a crime |
representative government | a government which citizens are elected to do the work of the government for a larger group |
middle passage | a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies |
african diaspora | the population of displaced africans around the world. |
triangular trade | trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among england, the american colonies, and africa |