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| Founder of England's first American colony |
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| Economic system that European nations used to enrich their treasuries |
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| First permanent English settlement in North America. |
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| Leader of the Jamestown colony. |
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| Land grant given to one who could pay his or her way to the colonies. |
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| One who worked for a set time without pay in exchange for a free passage to America |
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| The Virginia assembly, which was the first represenetive assembly in the American colonies |
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| Company funded by a group of investors |
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| Person who puts money into a project to earn a profit |
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| Written contract giving the right to establish a colony |
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| Colony ruled the king's appointed officials |
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| Puritan leader who became the first governor ofthe Massachusetts Bay Colony |
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| Separatist group that traveled to America to gain religious freedom |
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