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US History Chapter 3 lessons 1-2 Study Guide

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charter   a document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony  
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joint-stock company   a company in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profits  
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headright   a 50-acre grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way  
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burgess   elected representative to an assembly  
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dissent   to disagree with or oppose an opinion  
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persecute   to mistreat a person or group on the basis of a belief  
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tolerance   the ability to accept or put up with different views or behaviors  
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England and Spain   Fighting between what two countries kept John White from returning to Roanoke for nearly three years?  
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the Virginia Company   What is an example of a joint-stock company?  
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The starving time   What did the Jamestown colonists called the winter of 1609–1610?  
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tobacco   Which crop saved Jamestown by making money for the settlement’s investors?  
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Virginia Dare   She was the first English child born in the American colonies.  
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Croatoan Island   Although bad weather kept John White from investigating, he thought the Roanoke settlers might have moved here.  
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profits   In a joint-stock company, investors buy shares, or part ownership, in the company in the hope of sharing future _________.  
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burgesses   The men of Jamestown elected representatives called ____________________ to enact local laws.  
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women   When the Virginia Company sent ____________________ to Jamestown, and marriage and children became part of life in Virginia.  
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Royal   In 1624 King James took control of the Virginia Colony from the Virginia Company, making the area a ____________________ colony.  
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Rhode Island   Where in America was religious tolerance first practiced?  
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut   This was the first written constitution in America.  
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Squanto and Samoset   They helped the Pilgrims survive in Plymouth.  
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Mayflower Compact   A pledge, signed by the pilgrims, to obey the laws of the colony  
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Puritans   What were Protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican Church called?  
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John Rolfe   Pocahontas married him.  
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Separatists   What group sought to leave the Anglican Church and form their own church?  
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King James I   Who was England’s first permanent colony in North America was named after?  
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Pilgrims   Because their journey had a religious purpose, passengers on the Mayflower called themselves this.  
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Great Migration   What movement led 15,000 Puritans to Massachusetts in the 1630s?  
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Pocahontas   Who was the Powhatan chief’s daughter who married an English settler?  
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indentured servants   People who paid for their passage to America with labor were called________________.  
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King Henry VIII   Which English king broke from the Catholic Church and formed the Anglican Church?  
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The Dutch   Who brought the first enslaved Africans to the colonies?  
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Croatoan   When John White returned to an abandoned Roanoke, what word did he find carved into a tree?  
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North Carolina   Roanoke is an island off the coast of what current state?  
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Jamestown   .In 1607 three ships with 144 settlers entered the Chesapeake Bay and went on to establish ___________.  
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Puritans   The ____________________ came to America for religious freedom, but they refused to grant that same freedom to people of other faiths.  
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Captain John Smith   Under whose leadership did the Jamestown settlers survive their first two years?  
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Metacomet   Wampanoag leader also known as King Philip.  
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Spain   What country had a feared and powerful Armada?  
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Sir Francis Drake   Who was an English pirate who stole from the Spanish?  
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John White   Who was the leader of the Roanoke settlement?  
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