Question | Answer |
company that was backed by investor who paid money to mack a profit | joint-stock company |
a written contract, issued by the government giving the holder the right to build a colony. | charter |
a colony built in a swamp named after king james | jamestown |
a soldier that took controll of jamestown | John Smith |
people who sold their labor for passage into a colony | indentured servant |
the first representative assembly in the american colonies | House of burgesses |
in 1676 bacon mached into jamestown and took controll of the house of burgesses | bacons rebellion |
was a separtist group | pilgrims |
an agreement of laws that was agreed upon | mayflower compact |
left england to escape bad treatment from king james | puritans |
thousands of puritans lft their home to find a better place to live | great migration |
the laws were a constitution and extended voting rights | fundemental orders of connecticut |
a minister in massichusets who found the first baptist church | Roger Williams |
believed that a person could worship god without church | Anne Hutchinson |
kig philip was english for metacom and he lost the war | king philips war |
new govenor for amsterdam | peter stuyvesant |
a person who brought 50 settlers to new netherland | patroon |
took over new netherland and turned into new york | duke of york |
the duke of york was the propritor of new netherland | propritary colony |
a quaker that owned a large pice of land in america | william penn |
they beleaved people should live in peace with each other and welcomed all ethnic groups | quaker |
carolina became the royal colony and ran by people apointed by the king | royal colony |
found georgia and was a refuge for debtors | james oglethorope |