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chapter 3 explorers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| joint-stock company | People who put money into a project to earn profits. |
| charter | A written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony. |
| Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in North America. |
| John Smith | He was a soldier and adventurer who took control and made colonists work by using his own method,telling the colonists they only get to eat if they worked. He also ordered an exsisting wall extended around Jamestown. |
| Indentured Servants | A person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America. |
| House of Burgesses | Created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies |
| Bacon's Rebellion | A revolt against powerful colonial authority in Jamestown by Nathaniel Bacon and a group of landless frontier settlers that resulted in the burning of Jamestown in 1676 |
| Pilgrims | A member of the group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to America, and founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620 |
| Mayflower Compact | An |
| Puritans | |
| Great Migration | |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | |
| Anne Hutchinson | |
| King Philip's War | |
| Peter Stuyvesant | |
| Patroon | |
| Duke of York | |
| Proprietary Colony | |
| William Penn | |
| Quaker | |
| Royal Colony | |
| James Oglethorpe |
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