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Chapter 3 Vocab.JH:)
Question | Answer |
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They were backed up by investors, people who put money into a project to earn profits. | joint-stock company |
A written contract, issued by a government, giving the holder the right to establish a colony. | charter |
The first permanent English settlement in honor of King James. | Jamestown |
A soldier and adventurer, that took control of Jamestown. | John Smith |
These men and woman sold their labor to the person who paid their passage to the colony. | indentured servants |
An assembly where elected representatives, of the colonists would ment once a year.Created in 1619, became the first representative assembly in the American colonies. | House of Burgesses |
In 1676 Govener Bacon demanded that Berkeley approve a war against the Native Americans to seize their land for tobacco plantations.Berkeley refusal of his demand sparked this rebellion. | Bacon's Rebellion |
This was a Separatist group. | Pilgrims |
Because the Pilgrims landed outside the limits of the Virginia Company, their charter did not apply.For the sake of oreder, the men aboard the Mayflower signed an agreement called..... | Mayflower Compact |
The religious group between 1630 and 1640 that left England to escape bad treatment by King James I. | Puritans |
The thousand Puritan families that left for the Americas. | Great Migration |
This extended voting rights to non-church members and limited the power of the govener. | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
Was a minister in Salem, Massachusetts, who founded the first Baptist church in America. | Roger Willians |
Believed that a person could worship God without the help of a church, mimister, or bible. | Anne Hutchinson |
In 1675-1676, the Puritan colonies fought a brutal war with the Native Americans. | King Philip's War |
Served as the govener of the Ducth colony of New Netherland. Lost one of his legs! | Peter Stuyvesant |
A person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland. As reward they got s huge land grant etc. | patroon |
England's King Charles II decided that his brother should drive the Dutch out of New Netherland. | Duke of York |
The Duke of York became the owner of New Netherland, now a ........ | proprietary colony |
A large landowner in America. | William Penn |
A person that believed all people should live in peace and harmony. | Quaker |
In 1729, Carolina became a .... | royal colony |
In 1732, this amn founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors | James Oglethorpe |