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Unit 4 History NCs
History Notecards for Unit 4
Question | Answer |
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Joint Stock Company | a bussiness formed by a group of people jointly made an investmentand share the profits and losses |
Starving Time | A winter when disease and and famine struck the colony in Jamestown |
Authority | power, right to rule |
Headright System | colonists who paid their own way to Virginia received 50 acres of land |
Indentured Servant | a colonist who received free passage to North America in exchage for working without pay for a certain number of years |
Factor | cause |
Bacon's Rebellion | an attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and the colonial goverment in Virginia |
Religious Persecution | A separation of England from the Roman Catholic Church |
Refuge | escape |
Royal Colony | a govener chosen by the king |
Propiertary Colony | a colony's owners controlled the goverment |
Slave Codes | laws to control slaves |
Toleration Act of 1649 | the bill that made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians |
Representive Goverment | elected indivisuals to represent the citizens |
Middle Passage | a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Alantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies |
African Diaspora | Enslaved Africans were sent all across the new world |
Triangular Trade | trading networks in which goods and slvaes moved among England, the American colonies, and Africa |