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Chapter 3 vocab ec
| Word | Defenition |
|---|---|
| Joint-stock companies | a company backed by investers |
| Charter | a wriiten contract, issued by the government, giving the holder the right to establish a colony |
| Jamestown | first permanent english settlement in the new world |
| John Smith | Took charge of Jamestown in 1608 |
| Indentured servents | men and women who sell there labor to a person who would pay their travel to a colony |
| House of Burgesses | first representatiive assembly in the american colonies |
| Bacon's Rebellion | a rebellion to make Governer bekley approve the war against the Natives |
| Pilgrims | a seperatist group who estabished the colony of Plymouth |
| Mayflower Compact | an agreement where the men on the mayflower vowed to obey laws agreed for the colony |
| Puritans | a religious group that fled England to avoid punushiment from the king. |
| Great Migration | thousands of puritans left there land to found new settlements in america. |
| Fundemental Orders Of Connecticut | extended voting rights and limited the governer's power. |
| Roger Williams | founded Rhode Island |
| Anne Hutchinson | beleived people could worship without a church, minister, or bible. Fled to Rhode Island. |
| King Phillip's War | a conflict fought out by the Puritans and the Native Americans |
| Patroon | a person who brought 50 settelers to New Netherland |
| Duke of York | controled the colony of New Netherland. The colony of New York was named after him. |
| Propriertary colony | a colony owned by another colony |
| William Penn | established the colony of Pennslyvania |
| Quakers | a religious group that beleived all people should live in peace and harmony |
| Royal Colony | a colony ruled by governers appointed by a king |
| James Oglethrope | established the colony of Georgia |