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Definition | Term |
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Businesses in which a group of people invest together. | joint-stock company |
Power | Authority |
The _______________ was a reward system set up by the London Company. Every time he brought another colonist, he got 50 acres of land. | Headright system |
These servants signed a contract to work for 4 to 7 years for those who payed for their journey to America. | Indentured servant |
A Marilyn the law that made restricting the religious rights of Christians a crime; the first law guaranteeing religious freedom passed in America. | Toleration act of 1649 |
A colony ruled by a king | Royal colony |
A colony controlled by investors | Propriety colony |
to be involved on or connected with | Implicate |
a society with many religions, cultural, and racial groups co-exist | Pluralistic |
The winter of 1609, Jamestown, disease and famine | Starving time |
To take in and incorporate as one's own | Assimilate |
An official document that gives the person the right to establish a colony | Charter |
One who studies history as a living | Historian |
The systematic study of past human life and culture by the recovery and examination of remaining material evidence | Archaeologist |
One who studies the origin, the behavior, physical, social, and cultural developmeint of humans. | Anthropologist |
To destroy, kill | Decimate |
middle passage | the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas |