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Chapter 3 Vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A buisness 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 permanant English settlement in North America. | Jamestown |
| Leader of Jamestown who helped it thrive. He had to leave the Americas because of an injury. | John Smith |
| Person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America. | Indentured Servant |
| Created in 1619, the 1st representative assemby 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. | Bacon's Rebellion |
| Members of the group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to America, and founded the Plymouth Colony. | Pilgrims |
| An agreement established by the men who sailed to America on the Mayflower, which called for laws for the good of the colony and set forth the idea of self-government. | Mayflower Compact |
| A member of a group from England that settled to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and sought to reform the practives of the Church of England. | Puritans |
| The movement of Puritans from England to establish settlement around the world, incuding 20,000 who settled 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 represtative government. | Fundemental Orders of Connecticut |
| Founded the first Baptist Church in America. He opposed the colonists' taking of Native American land by force, and he was run out of the colony for this reason. He fled south and founded the colony of Rhode Island. | Roger Williams |
| Believed that one could worship God without the help of a church, minister, of Bible. She was brought to trial and forced to leave Massachusetts. She fled to Rhode Island in 1638. | Anne Hutchison |
| A war between the Puritan colonies and Native Americans. | King Phillip's War |
| The governer of the city of New Amsterdam. He was forced to surrender to the British. | Peter Stuyvesand |
| A person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland. | patroon |
| Drove out the Dutch colonists. He became the proprietor of New York. | Duke of York |
| A colony with a single owner. | proprietary colony |
| A member of a wealthy English family. He joined the Quakers, and was given a large amount of land by King Charles the Second. He named it Pennsylvania, or "Penn's Woods". | William Penn |
| A person who believed that all people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religous and ethnic groups. | Quaker |
| A colony ruled by governers appointed by a king. | royal colony |
| Founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors. He set up strict rules that upset the colonists, and Georgia then became a royal colony. | James Oglethorpe |
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