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S.S. ch3 vocab-CC
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| backed by investors who put money into a project to ean profits. They own a piece of ownership of the compony called stock. They split profits and divide losses. | joint-stock company |
| a written contract, issued by government giving the holder the right to esablish a colony | charter |
| the first permanent english settlement named jamestown in honor of king james. | jamestown |
| a soldier and adventurer that took control of hamestown and made it grow | John Smith |
| men and women who sold their labor to the person who paid their labor to the person who paid their passage to the colony | indentured servant |
| created in 1619 and was the first representative assembly in the american colonies | house of burgesses |
| Nathaniel Bacon wanted to have a war with the Native Americans for their land. Governor Berkely refused so Bacon burned Jamestown to the ground | Bacon's rebelion |
| separatists who got attacked by kind James because they rejected Englands church. So they moved to Holland then became dissatisfied and moved into a piece of the Virgina Componies land | Pilgrims |
| Because Pilgrims landed outside of virginia the men signed an agreement, they vowed to obey laws agreed apon for the good of the colony | Mayflower Compact |
| Left church of England to "purify" its practices. | Puritans |
| about 20,000 Puritans crossed the atlantic to the americas | Great migration |
| thomas hooker's colony wrote and adopted it in 1639. In effect, the laws were a constitution | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
| A minister in salem, Massachusetts, who founded the first Baptist church in America | Roger williams |
| A woman that belived that a person could worship god without the help of a church, minister, or bible. | Anne Hutchinson |
| The puritan's war against Native Americans 1675-76 | King Philip's war |
| Guy who became Covernor of New Netherland,s and has a peg leg. | Peter Stuyvesant |
| a person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland | patroon |
| The kings brother who drove the dutch out of New Netherlands so then it was called New York | Duke of York |
| New Nethrlands was now the property of New York and the Duke owned it | proprietary colony |
| Large landowner, he grew up in a rich family and rebelled and joined the Quakers, King James owed him ad gave him land. He called it Pennsylvania. | William Penn |
| People that belived in peace and harmony and acepted different Religions and ethnic groups | Quakers |
| A colony ruled by governors apointed by the king | royal colony |
| founded gorgia in 1732 as a refuge for debtors | James Oglethrope |