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US History

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joint-stock company   business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit  
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charter   written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony  
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Jamestown   first permanent English settlement in North America  
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John Smith   a soldier and adventurer that took control of Jamestown, he also persuaded the Powhatten tribe to trade corn to the colonists  
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indentured servant   a person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America  
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House of Burgesses   created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies  
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Bacon's Rebellion   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  
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pilgrims   a member of the group that rejected the Church of England sailed to America, and founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620  
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Mayflower Compact   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 fourth the idea of self-government  
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Puritans   a member of a group from England that settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and sought to reform the practices of the Church of England  
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Great Migration   the movement of Puritans from England to establish settlements  
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut   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  
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Roger Williams   founded the first Baptist church in America  
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Anne Hutchunson   believed that a person could worship God without the help of a church, minister or Bible  
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King Phillip's War   1675-1664 the Puritan colonies fought a brutal war with the Native Americans  
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Peter Stuyvesant   the new governor of the colony of New Netherland from 1647-1664  
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patroon   a person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland and in return received a large land grant and other special privileges  
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Duke of York   King Charles 12nd decided that his brother should drive the Dutch out of New Netherland  
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proprietary colony   a colony with a single owner  
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William Penn   became another large landowner in America and was born into a wealthy English family  
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Quakers   a person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnic groups  
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royal colony   a colony ruled by governors appointed by a king  
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James Oglethorpe   in 1732 he founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors  
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