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Companies that were backed by people who put money into a project to earn profits.   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, named in honor of King James.   Jamestown  
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A soldier and adventurer who took control over Jamestown in 1608.   John Smith  
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Men and women who sold their labor to the person who paid their passage to the colony.   indentured servant  
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Was created in 1619 and became the first representative assembly in the American colonies.   House of Burgesses  
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A rebellion that was sparked in 1676 because of Governor Berkeley's refusal of Nathaniel Bacon's demand to approve a war against the Native Americans.   Bacon's Rebellion  
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A Separatists group.   Pilgrims  
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An agreement that the men aboard the Mayflower signed that they vowed to obey laws upon the good of the colony.   Mayflower Compact  
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A religious group that left England to escape bad treatment from King James.   Puritans  
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The Puritans leaving.   Great Migration  
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Laws that extended voting rights to non-church members and limited power of the governor and expanded the idea of representative power.   Fundamental Orders of Connecticut  
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was a minister in Salem, Massachusettes, who founded the first Baptist church in America.   Roger Williams  
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She believed that a person could worship God without the help of the church, minister, or Bible.   Anne Hutchinson  
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A brutal war that the puritans fought with the Native Americans in 1675-1676.   King Phillip's War  
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A governor of the colony New Netherlands and he lost his leg in 1664.   Peter Stuyvesant  
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A person who brought 50 letters to New Netherland.   patroon  
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He drove the Dutch out of New Netherland.   Duke of York  
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A colony with a single owner.   proprietary colony  
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A large landowner in America.   William Penn  
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A person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony (William Penn was one).   Quaker  
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A colony ruled by governors appointed by the king.   royal colony  
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He founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors.   James Oglethorpe  
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