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Ch.3 Vocabulary
Hanna Jones,J0404073,chapter 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit. | joint-stock company |
| a written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony | charter |
| the first permanent English settlement in north america | Jamestown |
| a soldier and adventurer | john smith |
| these men and women sold their labor to the person who paid their passage to the colony | indentured servant |
| created in 1619,became the first representative assembly in the american colonies | house of Burgesses |
| a revolt against powerful colonial authority in Jamestown by Nathaniel bacon and a group of landless frontier settlers that resulted in the burning of Jamestown in 1676 | bacon's rebellion |
| a member of the group the rejected the church of England, sailed to america, and founded the Plymouth colony in 1620 | pilgrims |
| an agreement established by the men who sailed to america on the mayflower which called for laws the good of the colony and set forth the idea of self-government | mayflower compact |
| a member of a group from England that settled the Massachusetts bay colony in 1630 and sought to return the practices of the church of England | puritans |
| the movement of puritans from England to establish settlements around the world, including 20,000 who sailed for america | great migration |
| a set of laws that were established in 1639 by a puritan congregation who had settled in the Connecticut valley and that expanded the idea of representative government | fundamental orders of Connecticut |
| a person who brought 50 settlers to new Netherlands | patroon |
| colony with a single owner | proprietary colony |
| a person who believed all people should live in peace in different religions and ethnic groups | Quaker |
| a colony ruled by governors appointed by a king | royal colony |
| founder of Georgia as a refuge for debtors | James Ogle Thorpe |
| large landowner in america. born wealthy | william penn |
| england's king charles II brother | duke of york |
| governor of the dutch colony of new netherlands, lost his leg in 1644 during a military action against the island of st. martin in the carribean | peter Stuyvesant |
| in 1675-1676, the puritan colonies fought a brutal war with the native Americans | king Phillips war |
| believed that a person could worship god without the help of a church, minister, or bible. | Anne Hutchinson |
| minister in Salem, Massachusetts, who founded the first baptist church in america. he opposed forced attendance at church and two English colonist taking of native american lands by force | roger Williams |
| made 4 voyages across the Atlantic searching for an all water route to India;thought the earth was round | Christopher Columbus |
| he sailed south to the coast line of Africa; established an all-water route to India | Vosco Da'gama |
| sailed straight across Atlantic ocean south to south america then up the coastline of panama;named north and south america | Amerigo Vespucci |
| discovered the south sea and panama and was the first to discover the pacific ocean | Nunez de balboa |
| the first explorer to go around the world and discover its true side | Ferdinand Magellan |
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