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chapter 3 vocab ab
Question | Answer |
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joint stock company | backed by investors, are people that put money into a project to earn profits. |
charter | it was a contract that gave the right of the right of the holder to establish a colony by the government. |
john smith | a soldier and adventurer took control to take care of jamestown. |
jamestown | named after king james jamestown is the first permanent english settlement |
indentured servants | people that could not pay for passage to america sold their labor for the people that paid them passage |
house of burgesses | was the first represanitive assembly in the american colony. |
bacons rebellion | complains about high taxes and govenor berkeleys favoritism to large plantation owners and wants to start a war with the native americans |
pilgrims | was a sepratist group of the church of england. |
mayflower compact | to maintain order during the voyage the men aboard had sign the agreement. |
puritains | a religious group that left england to escape bad treatment from king james the first. |
great migration |