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Ch. 3 vocab. KK
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Joint-stock Company | A business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit. |
| Charter | A written contract issued by a government giving the holder a right to establish a colony. |
| Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in North America. |
| John Smith | He was a Admiral of New England and helped to establish first permanant English settlement in North America at Jamestown. |
| Indentured Servant | A person who has sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America. |
| House of Burgesses | Created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies. |
| Bacon's Rebellion | 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. |
| Pilgrims | A member of the group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to America, and founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620. |
| Mayflower Compact | Am 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. |
| Puritans | 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. |
| Great Migration | The movement of Puritans from England to establish settlements around the world, including 20,000 who sailed for America. |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | 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. |
| Roger Williams | He was a minister in Salem, Massachusetts, who founded the first Baptist church in America. |
| Anne Hutchinson | She challenged church authority and believed that a person could worship God without the help of a church, minister, or Bible. She was brought to trial and forced to leave Massachusetts. |
| King Philip's War | A war between the Puritan colonies and Native Americans in 1675 to 1676. |
| Peter Stuyvesant | Governor of the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1647. |
| Patroon | A person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland and in return recieved a large land grant and other special privileges. |
| Duke of York | Brother of King Charles II who was sent to drive the Dutch out of New Netherland. |
| Proprietary colony | A colony with a single owner. |
| William Penn | In 1681, he was given a large piece of land in America later known as Pennsylvania by King Charles II. It was repayment to the Penn family. |
| Quaker | A person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnic groups. |
| Royal colony | A colony ruled by governors appointed by a King. |
| James Oglethorpe | In 1732, he founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors. |