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chapter 3 vocab E.c
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Joint stock company. | To raise money were known as joint stock company.They were backed by investors,People who put money into the project to earn profit. |
| Charter | A contract issued by the government giving people rights to establish a colony. |
| James Town | More than 100 colonist were sent in a expidition.Later went down in the river of James river, until they found a spot to settle. |
| John smith | A solider and adventurer that took control over settlers. |
| indentured servents | Those that could not afford passage to america were encouraged to become indentured servents |
| House of burgesses | First represenatative assembly in american colonies. |
| Bacon rebellion | Bacon demanded that berkleley approve a war against the native americans to seize there land for tobacco plantations. Berkley refused. |
| Pilgrims | Were a separatist group. King James attacked them for rejecting englands official chruch. |
| Mayflower Compact | Men that aboarded the Mayflower signed an agreement. They vowed to obey laws agreed upon for the good colony. |
| Puritans | a religous group called the puritans left england to escape the treat ment by king james I. |
| Great Migration | By the thousands puritans families left for the americas. There leaving is known as the Great Migration. |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | A set of laws that were esablised in 1639 by a puritan congregation who has settled in the conniticut valley. |
| roger williams | Was a minister in salem massachusetts.Who founded the first baptist church in america |
| Anne Hutchinson. | Beleived that a person could warship god without help of a church,minister,bible. |
| King phillips war | king phillips was the English name of metacom leader of the wampanoag.Many were killed others were sold into slavery. |
| Peter stuyvesant | The new governorarrived in the city of new Amsterdam in may 1647. |
| Patroon | Was a person who brought 50 settlers to netherland. |
| Duke of york | King charlesII decided that his brother duke, Should drive the Dutch out of the netherland. |
| Proprietary colony | The duke of New york was now the proprietor, or owner of the colony. |
| William penn | Became another land landowner |
| Quakers | A person that beleived that everybody should live in a peaceful and harmony inviorment. |
| royal colony | A colony ruled by goveners appointed by a king. |
| James Oglethorp | Founded Georgia as a refuge for debators. |
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