| Question | Answer |
| joint-stock company | business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit |
| indentured servant | a person who sold his/her labor in exchange for passage to America |
| Puritans | a member of a group from England that settled the Mass. Bay Colony in 1630 and sought to reform the practices of the Church of England. |
| William Penn | wealthy Englishman who joined Quakers. King Charles II gave him big piece of land to settle debt; Pennsylvania |
| Roanoke | island off North Carolina; John White traveled there in 1585 and painted scenes of Native American villages |
| charter | a written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony |
| House of Burgessess | created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | 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 |
| Quaker | a person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnic groups |
| Jamestown | the first permanent English settlement in North America |
| pilgrims | a member of the group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to America, and founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620 |
| Royal Colony | a colony ruled by governors appointed by a king |
| John Smith | English soldier and adventurer. Came to Jamestown in 1608 |
| Mayflower Compact | an agreement established by the men who sailed to America on the Mayflower, shich called for laws for the good of the colony and set forth the idea of self-government |
| proprietary colony | a colony with a single owner |
| James Oglethorpe | Englishman who founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors in 1732 |
