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Chapter 3 Vocab SX
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a business in which investors 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 |
| the leader of Jamestown from 1608 to 1609 | John Smith |
| a person who 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 of Burgesses |
| 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 the Plymouth Colony in 1620 | Pilgrims |
| an agreement established by the men who sailed to America on the Mayflower, which called for laws for the good of the colony and set forth the idea of self-government | Mayflower Compact |
| a member of a group from England that settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and sought to reform the Practices of the Church of England. | Puritans |
| the movement of Puritans from England to establish settlements around the world, including about 20,000 who sailed for America | Great Migration |
| 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 |
| founder of the first Baptist Church in America, opposed taking Native Americans land by force and mandatory church attendance | Roger Williams |
| was forced to leave Massachusetts for beliefs that a person could worship God without the help of a bible, minister, or church, fled to Rhode Island | Anne Hutchinson |
| a war between the Puritan colonies and Native Americans | King Philip's War |
| govenor of the Dutch colony of New Netherland which is present-day New York | Peter Stuyvesant |
| a person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland and in return received a large land grant and other special privileges | Patroon |
| became King James II, was brother of King Charles II | Duke of York |
| a colony with a single owner | proprietary colony |
| famous Quaker Englishmen who owned a lot of land; present day state named after his lands | William Penn |
| people who believed all people should live in peace and harmony; known for acceptance of different religions and ethnic groups | Quaker |
| a colony ruled by governors appointed by the king | royal colony |
| founder of Georgia | James Oglethorpe |
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