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chapter 3 vocab jp
Question | Answer |
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They were backed by investors, people who put money into a project by investors, people who put money into a project to earn profits. | joint-stock company |
Was a written contract, issued by a government, giving the holder the right to establish a colony. | charter |
The first permanent English settlement in honor of King James. | Jamestown |
A soldier and adventurer, took control of Jamestown. This was on January 1608. | John Smith |
Those who could not afford a passage to America were encouraged to become. These men and woman sold their labor to the person who paid their passage to the colony. | indentured servants |
Created in in 0619, became the first representative assembly in the American colonies. | House of Burgess |
Governor Berkley's refusal of Nathaniel Bacon's demand sparked ____in 1676. | Bacon's Rebellion |
They were a Separatist group. King james attacked them for rejecting England's official church. | Pilgrims |
In this agreement the sailors vowed to obey laws agreed upon for the good of the colony. | Mayflower Compact |
A religious group left England to escape bad treatment by King James. | Puritans |
Puritan families left for the Americas, there leaving was known as the_______. | Great Migration |
These laws were a constitution. The ____ extended voting rights to non- church members and limited the power of the governor. They expanded the idea of representative government. | Fundamental orders of Connecticut |
Was a minister in Salem, Massachusetts, who founded the first baptist church in America. | Roger Williams |
She believed that a person could worship God without the help of a church, minister, or Bible. She conducted discussions in her home that challenged church authority. | Anne Hutchinson |
In 1675-1676 the Puritans fought a brutal war with the Native Americans. what was the war called? | King Phillip's War |
Was a person who brought 50settlers to new Netherland. As a reward the patroon received a large grant. | Patroon |
England's King Charles II decided that his brother, ______, should drive the Dutch out of New Netherland. | Duke of York |
New Netherland became the ______ ______ of New York after the colony surrendered. | Proprietary Colony |
This man became another large landowner in America. He was born in a wealthy family. | William Penn |
Penn joined what group to his father's disapproval | Quakers |
What type of colony did Carolina become in 1729. | Royal Colony |
Who founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors in 1732. | James Oglethorpe |