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Chapter 3 Vocab E.L.
| 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 estabilish a colony | charter |
| the first permanent English settlement in North America | Jamestown |
| was an English soldier and adventurer | John Smith |
| a person who sole his or her labor in exchange for passage to America | indentured servant |
| the first representative assembly in the American colonies created in 1619 | House of Burgesses |
| a revolt against powerful colonial authority in Jamestown by Nathaniel Bacon and a gorup of landless frontier settlers that resulted in the burning of Jamestown in 1676 | Bacon's Rebellion |
| members of a group that rejected the Church of England ,sailed to America,and founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620 | Pilgrims |
| an agreement estabilished 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 |
| members 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 estabilish settlements around the world,including 20,00 who sailed for America | Great Migration |
| a set of laws that were estabilished in 1639 by a Puritan congregation who had settled in Connecticut Valley and that expanded the idea of representative government | Fundamental Orders of Conncecticut |
| was a minister in Salem, Massuchusetts, who founded the first Baptist church in America | Roger Williams |
| woman who believed that a person could worship God without the help of a church,minister,or Bible | 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 | Peter Stuyvesant |
| a person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland and in return received a large land grant and other special privileges | patroon |
| brother of King Charles II and was decided to drive the Dutch out of New Netherland | Duke of York |
| a colony with a single owner | proprietary colony |
| English real estate entrepeneur who joined the Quakers | 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 governors appointed by a king | royal colony |
| British general who was the founder of Georgia | James Oglethorpe |
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