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Chapter 3 Vocabulary
History Chapter 3 Vocabulary
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08/26/2014

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Joint-stock company
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a business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit
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Charter
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a written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony
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Jamestown
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the first permanent English settlement in North America
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Indentured servant
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a person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America
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House of Burgessses
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created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies
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Bacon's Rebellion
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a revolt against powerful colonial authority in Jamestown by Nathaniel Bacon and a group of landless frontier settlers that resulting in the burning of Jamestown in 1676
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Pilgrim
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a member of the group that rejected the church of England, sailed to America and founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620
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Mayflower Compact
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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
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Puritans
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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
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Great Migration
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the movement of Puritans from England to establish settlements around the world, including 20,000 who sailed for America
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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a set of laws that were established in 1639 by a Puritan congregation who had settled in the Connecticut valley
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King Philip's War
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a war between the Puritan Colonies and Native Americans in 1675-1676.
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Proprietary Colony
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a colony with a single owner
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Quaker
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a person who believed all people should live in peace & harmony
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Royal Colony
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a colony ruled by governors appointed by a King
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Patroon
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a person who brought so settlers to New Netherlands and in return received a large land grant and other special privileges
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