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Unit #4 Vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Joint Stock Company | a company who's stock is jointly owned by shareholders |
| Starving time | time when winter, diasease, and faimene |
| Authority | power or right to rule |
| Headright system | colinists paid for their land |
| factor | fact or influence |
| refuge | a safe place |
| Religious Persecution | a mistreatment of people by their religeon |
| Bacon Rebellion | a man named bacon burned down Jamestown in rage of taxes |
| Slave codes | laws to control slaves |
| Toleration Act of 1649 | made it a crime to refuse christians |
| Indentured servant | a slave who had to serve seven years and then got land |
| Royal Colony | a colony owned by rolyalty |
| Representitive Government | people vote on someone to represent them |
| Triangular Trade | a trading network for goods and slaves |
| Middle Passage | a non exsistent path from the Atlantic to the Pacifics |
| African Diaspora | the African slave trade moving Africans |
| Proprietary colony | a colony which the owner is the government |