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| joint stock company | Business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit. |
| charter | Written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony. |
| Jamestown | First permanent English settlement in North America. |
| John Smith | Man who saved Jamestown saying If you don't work you don't eat. |
| House of Burgesses | First representative assembly in the American colonies. |
| Pilgrims | Member of the group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to America, and founded the Plymouth Colony. |
| Mayflower Compact | 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. |
| Puritans | 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. |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | 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. |
| Roger Williams | Man that established the first Baptist church in America, he founded the colony of Rhode Island. |
| Anne Hutchinson | This person was brought to trial and forced to leave Massachusetts because they challenged church authority. |
| William Penn | Established the colony of Pennsylvania for the Quakers. |
| Quaker | Person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnic groups. |
| royal colony | Colony ruled by governors appointed by a king. |
