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| joint-stock company | Company where people put money into a project to make a profit |
| charter | written contract, issued by a government, gives holder right to establish a colony |
| Jamestown | 1st permanent English settlement in North America |
| John Smith | leader of Jamestown |
| indentured servant | workers who traded labor for help getting started in America |
| House of Burgess | 1st representative assembly in the American colonies |
| Bacon's Rebellion | rebellion aby poor, landless settlers against wealthy Virginia landowners |
| Pilgrims | members of a religious group who wanted to separate from the Church of England |
| Mayflower Compact | agreement signed by Pilgrims to obey colony laws |
| Puritans | religious group, wanted to "purify" the Church of England |
| Great Migration | movement of Puritans from England to America |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | laws adopted by Puritans in Connecticut in 1636 |
| Roger Williams | minister who founded colony of Rhode Island |
| Anner Hutchinson | believed a person could worship God without attending church, forced to leave her colony |
| King Philip's War | conflict between settlers and Native Americans |
| Peter Stuyvesant | governor of New Netherland |
| patroon | a person who brough 50 settlers to New Netherland |
| Duke of York | owner of the colony of New York |
| proprietary colony | colony run by an owner |
| William Penn | founder of Pennsylvania |
| Quaker | religious groupwho believed all people should live in peace and harmony |
| royal colony | colony ruled by a governor appointed by the king |
| James Oglethorpe | founder of Georgia |
| alliance | agreement between two groups to act together for a common purpose |
| assembly | a lawmaking body |
| congregation | group of people who belong to the same church |
| constitution | a set if laws |
| county | government division of a colony |
| debtor | person who owes a debt |
| investment | money that is invested |
| malalria | disease that is spread by bite of a certain mosquito |
| profit | money earned on an investment |
| raw material | natural resource like timber or wool |
| reform | make better by getting rid of faults |
| refuge | protection or shelter from trouble |
