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Chapters 3 &4 Vocabulary
The Colonial Unit
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History
8th Grade
03/13/2008

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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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John Smith

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a soldier and adventurer who took control of Jamestown and said, "He that will not work shall not eat."

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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 Burgesses

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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 resulted in the burning of Jamestown

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Pilgrims

 

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A member of the group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to North America, and founded the Plymouth Colony

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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 and that expanded the idea of representative government

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Roger Williams

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A minister in Massachusetts, who founded he first Baptist church in America.  In 1836 he founded the colony of Rhode Island which  guaranteed religious freedom and separation of church and state

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Anne Hutchinson

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Believed that a person could worship God without the help of a church, minister, or Bible.  She fled to Rhode Island in 1638

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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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Peter Stuyvesant

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The Dutch governor of the colony of New Netherland in 1647

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Patroons

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A person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland and in return received a large land grant and other special privileges

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Duke of York

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The brother of England's King Charles II who drove the Dutch out of New Netherland

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