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chapter3vocabwp
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A business in which investors pool their wealth in order to make 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 A solider and adventurer who took control of James town | 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 American colonies | House of Burgesses |
| A revolt against powerful colonial authority in Jamestown by Nathanial Bacon and a group of landless frontier settlers that resulted in the burning of Jamestown in 1676 | Bacon’s rebellion |
| A member of a group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to the Americas, 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 ideas 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 20,000 who sailed from America | Great migration13 |
| 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 | Fundamental orders of Connecticut. |
| A minister in Salem, Massachusetts, who founded Baptist church in America | Roger Williams. |
| A colony ruled by governs appointed by a king. | Royal colony |
| She 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 colony of New Netherlands | Peter Stuyvesant |
| A person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherlands and in return received a large land grant and other special privileges | Patroon. 6 |
| Largest single landowner in America | Duke of York |
| A colony with only one owner | Proprietary colony |
| He was a large land owner in America and was a Quaker | William Penn |
| A person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony | Quaker |
| In 1732 he founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors | James Oglethorpe |
| the first english settelment in america | james town |
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