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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, "He who works not, eats not." |
| indentured servant | Person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America. |
| House of Burgesses | First representative assembly in the American colonies. |
| Bacon's Rebellion | Revolt against powerful colonial authority in Virginia, where a group of landless frontier settlers burned Jamestown. |
| Pilgrims | Members 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. |
| Great Migration | Movement of Puritans from England to establish settlements around the world, including 20,000 who sailed for America. |
| 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 | Person who 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 he/she challenged church authority. |
| King Philip's War | War between the Puritan colonists and the Wampanoags. |
| Peter Stuyvesant | Governor of New Netherlands. |
| patroon | Person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland and in return received a large land grant and other special privileges. |
| Duke of York | Person who drove the Dutch out of New Netherland. |
| proprietary colony | Colony with a single owner. |
| 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 |
| James Oglethorpe | Founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors. |
