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Chapter 3 vocab Y.K.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| joint-stock company | A business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit. |
| charter | Written contract issued by government giving the holder the right to establish a colony. |
| jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in North America. |
| John Smith | A soldier and adventurer who took control in 1608. |
| indentured servant | Men and women who sold their labor to the person who paid their passage to the colony. |
| House of Burgesses | First representative assembly in the American colonies. |
| Bacon's rebelion | A revolt against powerful colonial region that ran along the Appalachian Mountains through the far western part of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. |
| pilgrims | A member of the group that rejected the church of England, sailed to North America and founded Plymouth. |
| mayflower compact | 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 of the idea of self-government. |
| puritans | A member of the 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. |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | A set of laws established in 1639 by a puritan. |
| Roger Williams | A minister in Salem, Massachusetts, who founded the first Baptist church of America. |
| Anne Hutchinson | A person who believed you could worship god without the help of a church, minister, or Bible. |
| King Philip's War | A war between the Puritan colonies and Native Americans. |
| Peter Stuyvesant | The governor of New Amsterdam. |
| patroon | A person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherlands and in return recieving a large land grant. |
| Duke of York | King Charles II's brother. |
| proprietary colony | A colony with a single owner. |
| William Penn | A large landowner in America, who was also a Quaker. |
| Quaker | A person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony. |
| royal colony | A colony ruled by governors appointed by the king |
| James Oglethrope | Founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors. |
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