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Chapter 3 vocab JB
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A business in which inventors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit. | 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 North America. | Jamestown |
| A soldier, and adventurer. He helped with a different method. | John Smith |
| A person who is sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America. | indentured servant |
| created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies | House or Burgeeses |
| A revolt against powerful colonial authority in Jamestown by Nathaniel Bacon and a group of landless frontier settlers that resulted in the burning of Jamestown in 1676. | Bacon's Rebellion |
| A member of the group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to America, and founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. | Pilgrim |
| An agreement established by the men who sailed to America on the Mayflower, which called for laws for the food of the colony and set forth the idea of self-government. | Mayflower compact |
| A member of a group from England that setled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and sought to reform the practices of the Church of England. | Puritan |
| The movement of Puritans from England to establish settlements around the world, including 20,000 who sailed for america; The movement of African Americans between 1910 and 1920 to northern cities from the South. | Great Migration |
| A set of laws that were established in 1639 by a puritan congregation who had settled in the Connecticut Valley and that expanded the idea of representative government. | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
| He was a minister in Salem, Massachusetts, who founded the first Baptist church in America. He opposed forced attendance at church. He also opposed the English colonists' taking of Native American lands by force. | Roger Williams |
| She believed that a person could worship God without the help of a church, minister, or Bible. She conducted discussions in her home that challenged church authority. She was brought to trial and forced to leave Massachusetts. | Anne Hutchinson |
| A war between the Puritan colonies and Native Americans in 1675- 1676 | King Philip's War |
| Governor of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, lost his leg in 1644 during military action. | Peter Stuyvesant |
| A person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland and in return received a large land grant and other special privileges. | patroon |
| England King Charles the 2nd's brother. He owned New York and was the proprietary. | Duke of York. |
| A colony with a single owner. | proprietary colony |
| A large landowner in America. He was born into a wealthy English family. He joined the Quakers, to his father's disapproval. He was attacked for his beliefs. | William Penn |
| A person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnic groups. | Quaker |
| A colony ruled by governers appointed by a king. | royal colony |
| The founder of Georgia | James Oglethorpe |
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