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Chapter 3 Vocab.rt
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a business in which investors pool their wealth in order to earn a profit | joint-stock company |
| a written contract issued by the government giving the holder the right to establish a colony | charter |
| the first permanent English settlement in North America | Jamestown |
| a soldier and adventurer that ordered an exsisting wall extended around Jamestown and persuaded the Indians to trade their corn | John Smith |
| a person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America | indentured servant |
| created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies | House of Burgesses |
| a revolt against a powerful colonial authority in Jamestown by Nathaniel Bacon and a group of landless frontier settlers that resulted in the burning of Jamestown in 1676 | Bacon's Rebellion |
| a member of the group that rejected the church of England, sailed to America, and founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620 | Pilgrim |
| an agreement established by the men who sailed to America on the Mayflower, which called for laws for the good of the colony and set forth the idea of self-government | Mayflower Compact |
| a member of the group from England that settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and sought to reform the practices of the church of England | Puritan |
| the movement of the Puritans from England to establish settlements around the world, including 20,000 who sailed for America | Great Migration |
| a set of laws that were established in 1639 by a Puritan congregation who had settled in the Connecticut Valley and that expanded the idea of the representitave government | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
| minister in Massachusetts and founded Rhode Island | Roger Williams |
| forced to leave Massachusetts and fled to Rhode Island because she argued with the church ways | Anne Hutchinson |
| a war between the Puritan colonies and Native Americans in 1675-1676 | King Phillip's War |
| governer of the Dutch colony of New Ntherland | Peter Stuyvesant |
| a person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland and in return recieved a large grant and other special privliges | patroon |
| King Charles 2's brother | Duke of York |
| a colony with a single owner | proprietary colony |
| Quaker and also founded Pannsylvania | William Penn |
| a person who belived all people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnic groups | Quaker |
| a colony ruled by governers appointed by a king | royal colony |
| founded Georgia | James Oglethorpe |
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