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Chapter 3 Vocab
Chapter 3 Vocab AK
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Joint-stock company | To raise money they made joint stock company, they were backed by investors. |
| Charter | It is a written contract given by a government to giving the holder right to establish colony. |
| Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in honor of King James. |
| John Smith | He was a solider and adventurer. |
| Indentured servant | These were who could not afford passage through America so they sold their labor to the person |
| House of Burgesses | Became first representative assembly in American colonies. |
| Pilgrims | Pilgrims was a separatist group. |
| Mayflower Compact | the Men on the Mayflower signed May flower compact to agree upon good of colony |
| Puritans | A Group of religious people left England from the bad rule of King Henry. |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | They extended voting to non church members and the power of governor. |
| Proprietary Colony | was a colony in which one or more individuals, usually land owners |
| William Penn | He became another large land owner in America. |
| Royal Colony | It was the colony which was overthrew by the colony proprietary. |
| James Oglethorpe | Founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors.. |
| Quaker | Was against Williams Father |