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| Question | Answer |
| joint stock company | a buisness formed by a group of people who jointly make an investment and share the profits and losses. |
| starving time | a time that killed all but 60-500 colonists in jamestown virginia |
| authority | power or right to rule. |
| headright system | colonist paid their own way to virginia and recieved 50 acres of land. also get additional 50 acres for anyone else brought over including family or servants. |
| indentured servent | a colonist who received free passage to north america in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years. |
| factor | a crop broker who managed the trade between southern planters and their customers |
| bacon's rebellion | an attack led by nathaniel bacon against american indians and the colonial government in virginia. |
| religious persecution | mistreatment of a person because of his or her religious beliefes or pracitces. |
| refuge | a safe place. |
| royal colony | a colony owned by a king or queen. |
| proprietary colony | |
| slave codes | laws passed in the colonies to control slaves. |
| toleration act of 1649 | a maryland law that made restricting the religious rights of a christians a crime the first law guaranteeing religious freedom to be passed in america. |
| representative government | |
| government | a form of political system wich 1 man or group controlls a state |
| middle passage | a voyage that brought enslaved africans across the atlantic ocean to north america and the west indies. |
| african diaspora | the population of dicplaced africans and their decendants around the world |
| triangular trade | trading networks in wich goods and slaves moved among ingland, the american colonies, and africa. |
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