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chapter 3 vocab. BM
Question | Answer |
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backed by investors, people who put their money into a project to earn profits | joint-stock company |
a written contract | charter |
first independent, permanent colony in the Americas | Jamestown |
a soldier and adventurer who took over Jamestown | John Smith |
someone who sold their labor to come to America | indentured servant |
representative assembly in the Americas | House of Burgess |
caused the burning of Jamestown and took control over the House of Burgess | Bacon's Rebellion |
a Separatist group who fled England for religious freedom | pilgrims |
a document signed in Plymouth by pilgrims | Mayflower Compact |
a religious group who caused the great migration | Puritans |
thousands of Puritans left for the Americas | Great Migration |
extended voting rights to non-church members and limited the power of the governor | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
a minister in Salem, Massachusetts who founded the first Baptist church in America and also founded Rhode Island | Roger Williams |
she believed that a person could worship without the help of a church, a minister, or Bible | Anne Hutchinson |
a brutal war that the Puritans fought against the Wampanoag. | King Philip's War |
governor of the New Netherland colony | Peter Stuyvesant |
a person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland | patroon |
King Charles the II's brother | Duke of York |
owned sum of land | proprietary colony |
a man who received a large sum of land by the King | William Penn |
believed that all people should live in peace and harmony | Quaker |
King appointed governors to run colonies | royal colony |
founder of Georgia | James Oglethorpe |