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| encomienda | system in which Spanish authorities granted colonial landlords the service of Native Americans as forced labor |
| joint stock company | businesses in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose |
| headright system | the Virginia Company's policy of granting 50 acres of land to each settler and to each family member who accompanied him |
| indentured servant | person who has contracted to work for a limited period in return for travel expenses, shelter, and sustenance |
| royal colony | a colony under the direct control of the English monarch |
| Puritans | members of a group that wanted to eliminate all traces of the Roman Catholic rituals and traditions in the Church of England |
| Separatist | member of one of the Puritan groups established their own independent congregations; denied reform of the Church of England |
| John Winthrop | first govenor of Jamestown; called it "City upon a Hill" |
| Roger Williams | an extreme separatist, challenged the social order upon which the colony was founded |
| Anne Hutchinson | a dissenter, believed worshippers needed neither the church or its ministers to interpert the Bible; She was banished from the colony |
| Thomas Hooker | Puritan leader, founder the colony of Conneticut, and a leader of universal Christian suffrage |
| proprietor | an owner-particularly one of those granted ownership of and full governing rights over, certain of the English colonies in North America |
| Quaker | member of the Society of Friends, a religious group persecuted for its beliefs in the 17th century England |
