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chapter 3 vocab. BM
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| backed by investors, people who put their money into a project to earn profits | joint-stock company |
| a written contract | charter |
| first independent, permanent colony in the Americas | Jamestown |
| a soldier and adventurer who took over Jamestown | John Smith |
| someone who sold their labor to come to America | indentured servant |
| representative assembly in the Americas | House of Burgess |
| caused the burning of Jamestown and took control over the House of Burgess | Bacon's Rebellion |
| a Separatist group who fled England for religious freedom | pilgrims |
| a document signed in Plymouth by pilgrims | Mayflower Compact |
| a religious group who caused the great migration | Puritans |
| thousands of Puritans left for the Americas | Great Migration |
| extended voting rights to non-church members and limited the power of the governor | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
| a minister in Salem, Massachusetts who founded the first Baptist church in America and also founded Rhode Island | Roger Williams |
| she believed that a person could worship without the help of a church, a minister, or Bible | Anne Hutchinson |
| a brutal war that the Puritans fought against the Wampanoag. | King Philip's War |
| governor of the New Netherland colony | Peter Stuyvesant |
| a person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland | patroon |
| King Charles the II's brother | Duke of York |
| owned sum of land | proprietary colony |
| a man who received a large sum of land by the King | William Penn |
| believed that all people should live in peace and harmony | Quaker |
| King appointed governors to run colonies | royal colony |
| founder of Georgia | James Oglethorpe |