History unit 3 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Charter | An official documents that gives a person the right to establish a colony. |
joint-stock company | A business formed by a group of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses. |
Headright system | The colonists who paid their own way into Virginia and received 50 acres of land for every person you bring. |
Indentured servant | A colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years. |
Toleration Act of 1649 | A Maryland law that made restricting the religious rights of Christians a crime; the first law guaranteeing religious freedom to be passed in America. |
Royal colony | A colony that is founded and controlled by the king. |
Proprietary colony | A colony where the proprietary or colonies run the colony. |
Established church | The official church of a nation. |
Mayflower compact | A document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-goverment. |
Puritans | Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England. |
Pilgrims/separatists | People who move from place to place. A member of puritan separatist that left england in the early 1600 to settle in the americas. |
Religious persecution | A system of people not wanting the religious. |
Religious tolerance | Respect and allowing the religion. |
Historian | An expert or student of history. |
Archeologist | Some one that uncovers and studies artifacts and bones. |
Anthropologist | A person who studies cultures. |
Athority | The person who makes dissions for the king in the new world. |
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