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VOCAB FOR CHP 7
Chapter Seven vocab for stinson
Question | Answer |
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Joint stock company | a comnpaney that was backed by investors to earn profits |
Indentured Servants | Sold Their labor To Pay For Passage To A Colony |
Patroon | A Person Who If Brought 50 New Settlers They Would Get Land |
Charter | A Written Contract issued by a goverment giving the holder the right to establish a colony. |
Jamestown | First permanent English settlement named in honor of King James. |
John Smith | Took control of Jamestown with unorthodox methods such as his rule of "He that will not work shall not eat." |
Bacon's Rebellion | Nathaneial Bcon's idea got refused so he marched into Jamestown and burned it to the ground as well as also taking control of the House Of Burgesses. |
Pilgrims | A sepratist group despised by King James. |
Mayflower Compact | Because the Pilgrims landed outside the limits of Virginia Company,Their charter did not apply.For sake of order the men aboard the Mayflower signed an agreement named the Mayflower Compact.In it they vowed to obey laws for the good of the colony. |
Puritans | A religious group that left England to escape bad treatment by King James The I. |
Great Migration | The leaving of thousands of Puritan Families from England. |
Fundamental Orders Of Connecticut | A set of laws that were established in 1963 by a puritan congregation who had setteld in the connecticut valley and that expanded the idea of representative government. |
Roger Williams | A minister in Salem,Massachusetts who founded the First Baptist Church in America. |
Anne Hutchison | She believed a person could worship God without the help pf a Church ,minister, or Bible. |
King Philip's War | A conflict between the Europeans, Who believed that land could be owned by individuals whilst the Native Americans believed it was owned by everyone.Resulted in warfare. |
Duke Of York | Englands King Charles II decided his brother,Duke Of York, should drive the Dutch out of New Netherland.Who was a threat to them because of trade. |