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Chapter 3 Vocab cb
| Definition | Vocab word |
|---|---|
| investors invested money into the company and recieved ownership of peices of it called a stock. | joint-stock company |
| a written contract issued by the government | charter |
| the first permanent english settlement in honor of King James | Jamestown |
| took control of Jamestown and helped negotiate with the indians and brought more settlers to the New World | John Smith |
| people who sold their labor to the person who paid their passage to the colony.After working a while, they could farm and trade on their own. | indentured servants |
| created in 1619, it was the first representative assembly in th American colonies | House of Burgesses |
| Governor Berkley'srefulsal of Nathanial Bacon's demand to approve war against the Native Americans to seize their land for tabacco plantations | Bacon's Rebellion |
| a seperatist group that sought out religious freedom from the Church of England in the New World | pilgrams |
| An agreement that said the pilgrams vowed to obey laws agreed upon for the good of the colony since their charter didn't apply to the land they landed on. | Mayflower Compact |
| Wanted to purify the Church of England's practices | Puritans |
| The leaving of Puritans across the Atlantic Ocean to the new settlements | Great Migration |
| a constitution for the new settlement in Conneticut which extended voting rights to non-church members and limited the power of the governor. | Fundemental Orders of Conneticut |
| he opposed forced atendance to church and the English colonists' taking of the Native Amercan lands by force, so he founded the colony of Rhode Island in 1636 | Roger Williams |
| she belived that a person should be able to worship God without the help of a church or a Bible. | Anne Hutchinson |
| the Puritan colonies fought a war against the Wampanoag tribe to expand farther into Natve American land. | King Philp's War |
| a person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland | patroon |
| King Charles 2's brother who was appointed to drive the dutch out of New Netherland, and became the proprieter of New Netherland | Duke of York |
| a colony with a single owner | proprietary colony |
| he recived land from England because they owed him money. It came to be called Pennsylvania. | William Penn |
| a religious group that beleived that each person could know God through "an inner light" and didn't need churches or Bibles | Quakers |
| a colony ruled by governors appointed by the king. | royal colony |
| founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors. | James Oglethorpe |