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Ch 3 vocab
Chapter 3 vocab ss
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |