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Chapter 3 Vocab im

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joint-stock company   They were backed by investors ,people who put money into a project to earn profits.  
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charter   a written contract issued by a goverment giving the holder the right to establish a colony  
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Jamestown   The first permanent English settlement:named after King James.  
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John Smith   a soldier and adventurer who took charge and forced the colonists to work in Jamestown  
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indentured servant   men and women sold their labor to the person who paid their passage to Jamestown  
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House of Burgesses   First representative assembly in the american colonies  
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Bacon's Rebellion   Governor Berkeley refused to approve a war against the native americans to seize the land for tobacco plantations which Natahaniel Bacon demanded:This started the Bacon's Rebellion  
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Pilgrims   a separatist group that rejected England's official church  
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Mayflower Compact   men aboard the mayflower who signed a contract in which they vowed to obey laws agreed upon for the good colony  
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Puritans   religious group that left england to escape bad treatment by king james and wanted to puify the church of englands practices  
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Great migration   when puritans left england for america to found new settlements around the world  
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Fundamental orders of connecticut   extended voting rights to non-church members,limited the power of the goverment,and expanded the idea of representative government  
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Roger Williams   minister is salem miassachusttes who founded the first baptist church in america  
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Anne Hutchinson   challenged church authority and beleived a person could worship god without a church minister or bible  
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King phillip's war   when the puritans fought a war with the native americans  
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Peter Stuyvesant   governor of the dutch colony of New Netherland  
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patroon   a person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland  
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Duke of York   the brother of king Charles 2 ;owner of New York  
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proprietary colony   a colony with a single owner  
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William Penn   founded Pennsylvania  
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Quaker   welcomes different religions and ethnic groups  
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royal colony   a colony rules by governors appointed by a king  
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James Oglethorpe   founded georgia as a refuge for debters  
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