ch. 3 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
joint stock company | a business in which investors pool their wealth in order ti turn a profit |
charter | was written contract, issued by a government, giving the right to establish a colony |
jamestown | The 1st permanent English settlement in North America |
john smith | a solider and adventurer that took control |
indentured servant | is a person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passes to America |
house of burgesses | the first representator assembly in the American colonies |
pilgrims | were a separatist group |
mayflower compact | an agreement established by the men who sailed to America on the Mayflower,ich called for laws for the good of the colony and set forth the idea of self-government |
puritans | left England to escape bad treatment by King James I |
propietary colony | a colony with a single owner |
William Penn | a large land owner in America |
quakers | a person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony accepted different religions and ethnic groups |
royal colony | a colony ruled by governors appointed by a King |
James Oglethorpe | founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors |
roanoke | the first colony in America but it was unsuccessful |
fundamental orders of Connecticut | as set of laws that were established in 1639 by a puritan congregation who had settled in a Connectticut valley and that expanded the idea of representative government |
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