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| joint-stock company | a business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit |
| Jamestown | the first permanent English settlement |
| John Smith | a soldier and adventurer who took control of Jamestown |
| House of Burgesses | created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies |
| Pilgrims | a member of the group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to America, and founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620 |
| Mayflower Compact | an agreement established by the men who sailed to America on the Mayflower, which called for laws for the good of the colonyand set forth the idea of self-government |
| Great Migration | the movement of Puritan's from England to establish settlements around the world, including 20,000 who sailed for America |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | 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 |
| proprietary colony | a colony with a single owner |
| William Penn | founder of Pennsylvania |
