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Chapter 3 Vocab.rt

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a business in which investors pool their wealth in order to earn a profit   joint-stock company  
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a written contract issued by the government giving the holder the right to establish a colony   charter  
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the first permanent English settlement in North America   Jamestown  
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a soldier and adventurer that ordered an exsisting wall extended around Jamestown and persuaded the Indians to trade their corn   John Smith  
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a person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America   indentured servant  
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created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies   House of Burgesses  
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a revolt against a powerful colonial authority in Jamestown by Nathaniel Bacon and a group of landless frontier settlers that resulted in the burning of Jamestown in 1676   Bacon's Rebellion  
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a member of the group that rejected the church of England, sailed to America, and founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620   Pilgrim  
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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  
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a member of the group from England that settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and sought to reform the practices of the church of England   Puritan  
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the movement of the Puritans from England to establish settlements around the world, including 20,000 who sailed for America   Great Migration  
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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 the representitave government   Fundamental Orders of Connecticut  
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minister in Massachusetts and founded Rhode Island   Roger Williams  
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forced to leave Massachusetts and fled to Rhode Island because she argued with the church ways   Anne Hutchinson  
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a war between the Puritan colonies and Native Americans in 1675-1676   King Phillip's War  
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governer of the Dutch colony of New Ntherland   Peter Stuyvesant  
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a person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland and in return recieved a large grant and other special privliges   patroon  
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King Charles 2's brother   Duke of York  
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a colony with a single owner   proprietary colony  
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Quaker and also founded Pannsylvania   William Penn  
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a person who belived all people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnic groups   Quaker  
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a colony ruled by governers appointed by a king   royal colony  
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founded Georgia   James Oglethorpe  
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