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Chapter 3 vocab VK.
| Word | Definition | Word | Definition | Word | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joint-Stock Company | A business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit. | Puritans | A member of a group from England that settled the MassachusettsBay Colony in 1630 and sought to reform the practices of the Church of England | Proprietary Colony | A colony with a single owner |
| Charter | Written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony. | Great Migration | The movement of Puritans from England the establish colonies around the world | William Penn | English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, and founder and "absolute proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. |
| Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in North America | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | A set of laws that were established in 1639 by a puritan congregation who had settled in the Connecticut Valley and that expanded the idea of representative government | Quaker | A person who believed all people should be treated equal |
| John Smith | Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Bathory,Prince of Transylvania and friend Mózes Székely. | Roger Williams | English Protestant theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. | Royal Colony | A colony ruled by governors appointed by a king |
| Indentured Servant | A person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America | Anne Hutchinson | 17th century Puritan living in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Netherlands who became the leader of a dissident church discussion group | James Oglethorpe | British general, member of parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia. |
| House of Burgesses | Created in 1619,the first representative assembly in the American colonies. | King Philip's War | A war between the puritan colonies and the Native Americans in 1675-1676 | ||
| Bacon's Rebellion | A revolt against a powerful colonial authority in Jamestown by Nathaniel Bacon and a group of landless frontier settlers that resulted in the burning of Jamestown. | Peter Stuyvesant | served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York. | ||
| Pilgrims | A member of a group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to America, and founded the plymouth company. | Patroon | A person who bought 50 settlers to New Neatherlands and in return received a large land grant and other special privileges | ||
| Mayflower Compact | An agreement by the people who sailed on the Mayflower to America, which called for laws for the good of the country. | Duke of York | Second son to a British Monarch |
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