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A written contract, issued by the government, giving the holder the right to establish a colony.
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Chapter 3 Vocab IY
History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Companies that were backed by people who put money into a project to earn profits. | 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, named in honor of King James. | Jamestown |
| A soldier and adventurer who took control over Jamestown in 1608. | John Smith |
| Men and women who sold their labor to the person who paid their passage to the colony. | indentured servant |
| Was created in 1619 and became the first representative assembly in the American colonies. | House of Burgesses |
| A rebellion that was sparked in 1676 because of Governor Berkeley's refusal of Nathaniel Bacon's demand to approve a war against the Native Americans. | Bacon's Rebellion |
| A Separatists group. | Pilgrims |
| An agreement that the men aboard the Mayflower signed that they vowed to obey laws upon the good of the colony. | Mayflower Compact |
| A religious group that left England to escape bad treatment from King James. | Puritans |
| The Puritans leaving. | Great Migration |
| Laws that extended voting rights to non-church members and limited power of the governor and expanded the idea of representative power. | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
| was a minister in Salem, Massachusettes, who founded the first Baptist church in America. | Roger Williams |
| She believed that a person could worship God without the help of the church, minister, or Bible. | Anne Hutchinson |
| A brutal war that the puritans fought with the Native Americans in 1675-1676. | King Phillip's War |
| A governor of the colony New Netherlands and he lost his leg in 1664. | Peter Stuyvesant |
| A person who brought 50 letters to New Netherland. | patroon |
| He drove the Dutch out of New Netherland. | Duke of York |
| A colony with a single owner. | proprietary colony |
| A large landowner in America. | William Penn |
| A person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony (William Penn was one). | Quaker |
| A colony ruled by governors appointed by the king. | royal colony |
| He founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors. | James Oglethorpe |
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