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Chapter 3 Vocab Link
Chapter 3 Vocabulary for Ms Link's class
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| joint-stock company | group of investors who shared the stock and the profits and losses |
| charter | a written contract issued by a government giving the right to establish a settlement |
| Jamestown | the first permanent English settlement, that struggled at first but then grew and thrived |
| John Smith | a soldier and adventurer that took control of Jamestown and was later injured and returned to England |
| indentured servant | people who couldn't pay for a trip to the New World, so they sold their labor to people who paid for them to go |
| House of Burgesses | when the colonists became annoyed with the strict rule, they decided that burgesses would meet yearly, the House of Burgesses was the first one |
| Bacon's Rebellion | Nathaniel Bacon and a group of other landless settlers demanded to Lord Berkeley that they steal Indian land for plantations but when he said no, Bacon and his follower's captured the House of Burgesses and burned Jamestown down. |
| Pilgrims | seperatists who fled to Holland after thinking that the Church of England was too much like the Catholic Church, and later settled in America |
| Mayflower Compact | the Mayflower landed outside of the limits of the Virginia trade Company, so they made a compact for the good of the colony |
| Puritans | a religious group that left England because of the bad treatment from King James I in 1630s or 40s |
| Great Migration | Puritans wanted to "purify" their practices so they came to New England by the thousands. 20000 in all. |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | a constitution that extended voting rights to non-church members and limited government power |
| Roger Williams | a minister in Massachusetts who founded the first Baptist Church of America, and opposed forced attendance and taking of Indian land |
| Anne Hutchinson | conducted sessions in her home that challenged church authority; was banished to Rhode Island |
| King Philip's War | a war between Puritans and Native Americans; King Philip is English for Metacom, leader of Wampanoag |
| Peter Stuyvesant | new Governor of New Amsterdam, but when colonists turned on him, the English easily took the colony |
| patroon | person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherlands and received a large land grant |
| Duke of York | brother of King Charles II who drove the Dutch out of New Netherlands |
| proprietary colony | the most important colony in the state, New Netherlands is this for New York State |
| William Penn | a major landowner in America who founded Pennsylvania and Penn's Woods |
| Quaker | believed that people should live in peace and harmony and could live free in Pennsylvania |
| royal colony | colony ruled by governors appointed by the King |
| James Oglethorpe | founded Georgia in 1732 as a place for debtors to go in refuge |
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