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| is a type of corporation or partnership involving two or more individuals that own shares of stock in the company. | Joint-stock company
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| A written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power, by which an institution such as a company, university, or city is created and its rights and privileges defined. | charter
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| a former village on the James River in Virginia to the north of Norfolk; site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607 | Jamestown
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| was an English adventurer and soldier, and one of the founders of the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement. | John Smith
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| a person who signs and is bound by indentures to work for another for a specified time especially in return for payment of travel expenses and maintenance | indetured servant
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| was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America. | house of burgesses
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| an unsuccessful uprising by frontiersmen in Virginia in 1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colonial government in Jamestown | Bacon's Rebellion
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| a person who journeys, especially a long distance, to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: pilgrims to the Holy Land. | pilgrims
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| The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. | Mayflower compact
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| Puritans were a group of people who grew discontent in the Church of England and worked towards religious, moral and societal reforms | puritans
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| When the Puritans left England for religous reaasons to colonize. | great migration
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| The orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and powers | fundamental orders of Connecticut
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| was an English Protestant theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state | Roger Williams
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| was an early-17th century Puritan living in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Netherlands who became the leader of a dissident church discussion group. | Anne Hutchinson
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| was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day southern New England and English colonists and their Native American allies in 1675–76. | King Phillips War
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| served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City. | Peter Stuyvesant
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| the captain or officer commanding a ship | patroon
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| is a title of nobility in the British peerage | Duke of York
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| was a colony in which one or more individuals, usually land owners, remaining subject to their parent state's sanctions, retained rights that are today regarded as the privilege of the state | proprietary colony
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| was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, and founder and "absolute proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania | William Penn
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| a popular name for a member of the Religious Society of Friends | quaker
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| a colony ruled or administered by officials appointed by and responsible to the reigning sovereign of the parent state | royal colony
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| was a British general, member of parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia | James Oglethorpe
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