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Chapter 3 vocab ws
chapter 3 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit. | Joint-Stock Company |
| A written contract issued by the government giving the holder the right to establish a colony | Charter |
| The first Permanent English settlement in North America. | James Town |
| English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia | John Smith |
| A person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to america. | Indentured Servant |
| Created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the american colonies. | House Of Burgesses |
| 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. | Bacon's Rebellion |
| A member of the group that rejected the church of England, sailed to America and founded the Plymouth Colony. | Pilgrims |
| An agreement established by the men who sailed to America on the mayflower, which called for laws for the good of the colony and set forth the idea of self-government | Mayflower Compact |
| A member of a group from England that settled the Massachusetts bay colony in 1630 and sought to reform the practices of the church of England. | Puritans |
| The movement of Puritans from England to establish settlements around the world, including 20,000 who sailed to the Americas. | Great Migration |
| 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 goverment. | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
| English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism. Then he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 | Roger Williams |
| Was an American colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views | Anne Hutchinson |
| A war between the Puritan colonies and Native Americans in 1675-1676 | King Phillip's War |
| The last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland; in 1664 he was forced to surrender the colony to England | Peter Stuyvesant |
| A person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherlands and in return received a large land grant and other special privileges. | Patroon |
| A very highly regarded title give by the the king to someone who deserves it in the kings views. | Duke of York |
| A colony with one owner. | Proprietary colony |
| Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania | William Penn |
| A person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnicity. | Quaker |
| A colony ruled by governors appointed by the king. | Royal Colony |
| was a British general, a philanthropist, and was the founder of the colony of Georgia. As a social reformer in Britain, he hoped to resettle Britain's poor, especially those in debtors' prison | James Oglethorpe |
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