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chapter 3 vocab AM
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| company that was backed by investor who paid money to mack a profit | joint-stock company |
| a written contract, issued by the government giving the holder the right to build a colony. | charter |
| a colony built in a swamp named after king james | jamestown |
| a soldier that took controll of jamestown | John Smith |
| people who sold their labor for passage into a colony | indentured servant |
| the first representative assembly in the american colonies | House of burgesses |
| in 1676 bacon mached into jamestown and took controll of the house of burgesses | bacons rebellion |
| was a separtist group | pilgrims |
| an agreement of laws that was agreed upon | mayflower compact |
| left england to escape bad treatment from king james | puritans |
| thousands of puritans lft their home to find a better place to live | great migration |
| the laws were a constitution and extended voting rights | fundemental orders of connecticut |
| a minister in massichusets who found the first baptist church | Roger Williams |
| believed that a person could worship god without church | Anne Hutchinson |
| kig philip was english for metacom and he lost the war | king philips war |
| new govenor for amsterdam | peter stuyvesant |
| a person who brought 50 settlers to new netherland | patroon |
| took over new netherland and turned into new york | duke of york |
| the duke of york was the propritor of new netherland | propritary colony |
| a quaker that owned a large pice of land in america | william penn |
| they beleaved people should live in peace with each other and welcomed all ethnic groups | quaker |
| carolina became the royal colony and ran by people apointed by the king | royal colony |
| found georgia and was a refuge for debtors | james oglethorope |