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| joint stock company | a company where a number of people purchase shares of ownership at a set price |
| charter | an official document granting certain rights and privileges |
| indentured servant | these workers signed contracts in which they promised to serve a master for a certain time in exchange for free passage across the Atlantic |
| royal colony | a territory ruled by the English government |
| proprietary colony | a territory made up of land originally granted to an individual owner |
| Maryland Toleration Act | an act that extended freedom of religion to Christians |
| who did the maryland toleration act protect? | the Cathiolics |
| Protestant Reformation | a movement in Europe in the 1500s that began as an effort to reform the Roman Catholic church but resulted in the establishment of new Protestant churches |
| established church | a church that is required to be supported by a country through their taxes and loyalty to its teachings, often in exclusion of other churches |
| nationalism | feelings of pride and loyalty toward one's nation |
| Spanish Armada | large fleet of ships ordered by Philip II to invade England in 1588 |
| Cadiz | Spanish port that Sir Francis Drake sailed into in 1587, breaking accepted rules of war by opening fire on anchored ships and docks loaded with goodss |
| Martin Luther | monk that, in 1517, nailed up 95 statements and questions challenging beliefs and practices of Roman Catholic church |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | discovered and claimed Virginia; had an affair with Queen Elizabeth |
| Sir Francis Drake | one of most daring Sea Dogs; set out in 1577 to inflict heavy damages on the Spanish |
| Roanoke | colony started by Sir Walter Raleigh; settlers mysteriously disappeared |
| At Roanoke, what word was written on a post | Croatoan |
| Richard Hakluyt | geographer who recorded and published stories of explorers to North America |
| Virginia Company | company in Virginia which received charter from King James I in 1606 to settle land between Cape Fear and Hudson River |
| Jamestown | founded in 1607; lst settlement by the Virginia Company |
| Pochahontas | Indian girl who rescued John Smith and married John Rolfe |
| John Rolfe | Jamestown Colony settler who discovered that tobacco grew well in Virginia, which helped colony to prosper; married Pochahontas |
| John Smith | in 1608 took charge of Jamestown colony; helped colony to prospeR |
| what was major cash crop of Chesapeake colonies and when was crop discovered? | tobacco - 1616 |
| when were African slaves and indentured servants introduced to US? | 1619 |
| representative government | House of Burgesses - founded in 1619 - was the lst colonial assembly made up of elected representatives |
