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Chap 3 vocab an
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Joint-stock company | Joint stock companies are backed by investors; people who put money in a project to make profits. |
| charter | A written contract that is issued by the government, which gives the holder the right to establish a colony. |
| Jamestown | The first English settlement named in honor of king James. |
| John Smith | A soldier and adventurer |
| Indentured servants | These people sold their labor to the person who paid their passage to the colony. |
| House of Burgesses | this became the first representative assembly in the American colonies(created in 1619) |
| Bacon's Rebellion | After Governor Berkely refused Bacon's demanded that Berkely approve a war against the native Americans to seize thier land for tobacco, it sparked this rebellion in 1676. Bacon and his crew wrecked havoc and burned Jamestown. |
| Pilgrims | pilgrims were a Separatist group. |
| Mayflower Compact | An agreement which they must vow to obey the laws agreed upon for the good of the colony that the people of the Mayflower signed.(helped establish the idea of self government & majority rule) |
| Puritans | A religious group that left England to escape bad treatment from King James. |
| Great Migration | The leaving of thousands of Puritan families |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | these laws were made in 1636,it extended voting rights to non-church members and limited the power of the governor. |
| Roger Williams | A minister in Salem who opposed the forced attendance at church and the English colonists taking of Native American land by force. |
| Anne Hutchinson | Believed people could worship God w/o the help of a church,Bible, or minister. She conducted discussions that challenged church authority. She was brought to trial and forced to leave Massachusetts. She then fled to Rhode Island |
| King Phillip's War | A war that lasted between 1675-1676 between the puritan Colonies and the Native Americans |
| Peter Stuyvesant | was a new governor and because of his harsh personality he lost support of the dutch colonists |
| patroon | A person who brought 50 settlers to new Netherlands |
| Duke of York | the brother of King James || whose job was to drive the Dutch out of the New Netherlands |
| proprietary colony | a colony with a single |
| William Penn | A large land owner in America who joined the Quakers and was attacked for his Quaker beliefs |
| Quakers | A person who believed all people should live in peace in harmony |
| Royal Colony | A colony ruled by governors appointed by kings |
| James Oglethorpe | Founded Georgia as a refugee for debtors in 1732 |
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