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Ch 3 vocab
Chapter 3 vocab ss
Question | Answer |
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companies that were backed up by investors | joint stock company |
people who sold their labor to the person who paid their passage to the colony | indentured servant |
people who wanted to purify the church of england paractices | puritans |
large landowner in america | William Penn |
a colony that failed | Roanoke |
written contract issued by government | charter |
first representative assembly in american colonies | House of Burgesses |
extended voting rights to women and non church members | fundamental orders of connecticut |
a person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony | Quaker |
a colony found in 1607 | Jamestown |
separatist group that wanted to break away from the church of england | pilgrims |
a place ruled by governors appointed by the king | Royal Colony |
a soldier and adventurer who took control of Jamestown | John Smith |
agreement which made men vow to obey laws agrred upon the good of the colony | Mayflower Compact |
colony with a single owner | propietary colony |
founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors | James Oglethorpe |