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Chapter 3 Vocab JX
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Companies backed by people who put money into a project to earn profits. | joint-stock company |
| A written contract issued by the government giving the holder the right to establish a colony. | charter |
| The first permanent English settlement in the westward adventure. | Jamestown |
| A soldier/adventurer who took control of the conflict in surviving in the new colony. | John Smith |
| Men and women who sold their labor to the person who paid their passage to the coolony. | indentured servant |
| The first representative assembly in the American colonies. Created in 1619. | House of Burgesses |
| A rebellion caused by Governor Berkeley's refusal to Nathaniel Bacon's demand on making a war between the Native Americans for their land. | Bacon's Rebellion |
| A separatist group that fled to North America for freedom of religion. | Pilgrims |
| An agreement between the Virginia Company and the Pilgrims that vowed the Pilgrims to obey laws agreed upon for the good of the colony. | Mayflower Compact |
| A religious group that left England to escape the bad treatment given by King James I. | Puritans |
| The leaving of the Puritans to settle around the world. | Great Migration |
| A constitution that extended voting rights to nonchurch members and limited the power of the governor. | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
| A minister in Salem, Massachusetts who founded the first Baptist church in America. | Roger Williams |
| A woman who believed that a person could worship God without the help of a church, minister, or Bible. | Anne Hutchinson |
| A brutal war between the Puritan colonies and the Native Americans. | King Philip's War |
| The new harsh governor of New Netherland. | Peter Stuyvesant |
| A person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland. | patroon |
| The brother of England's King Charles II. He became the owner of the New York colony. | Duke of York |
| A colony that was New Netherland then New York. | proprietary colony |
| A large landowner in America who created the Pennsylvania colony. | William Penn |
| People who lived according to their beliefs- peace, harmony, different religions/ethnic groups together, and equality. | Quaker |
| A colony ruled by governors appointed by the king. | royal colony |
| Founder of Georgia as a refuge for debtors. | James Oglethorpe |
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