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| financed | paid for, raised funds for |
| Joint-Stock Company | companies backed by investors, people who put thier money into a project to earn profits |
| charter | written contract, issued by the government, giving the holder the right to establish a colony |
| Jamestown | the first permanent English settlement in honor of King James |
| John Smith | a soldier and adventurer who took control of Jamestown in 1608. He that will not work shall not eat" |
| indentured servant | person who sold thier labor to the person who paid thier passage to the colony. |
| Bacon's Rebellion | Bacon and a group of landless frontier settlers demanded that Governor Berkeley approve a war with the Native Americans to seize thier land for tobacco plantations. When Berekeley refused, Bacon marched on Jamestown, took control of hte House of Burgesses and burned Jamestown to the ground. |
| tyranny | a government in which a single ruler has absolute power |
| pilgrims | a separatists group |
| separatist group | a religious group that called for a complete break with the Church of England |
| Mayflower Compact | Pilgims on the Mayflower signed an agreement to obey laws agreed upon for the good of the colony. this helped to establish the idea of self-government and majority rule. |
| Puritans | Religious group who left England to escape bad treatment by King James I they wanted to reform or purify theChurch of Englands practices |
| Great Migration | thousands of Puritans who left their homeland to found settlements around the world. |
| godliness | piety, reverence |
| Fundatmental Orders of Conneticut | Thomas Hookers congregation that moved to the Conneticut Balley ccreated laws that were a constitution which extended voting rights to non-churchmemebers and limited the power of the governor, expanding the idea of representative government. |
| Roger Williams | minister in Salem, Massa chusettes. Foudned first Baptist Church in America. . He opposed forced attendance at church and taking Native Americans lands by force. . He was forced to leave the colony and ffled south, founding Rhode Island which guaranteed religious freedom and separation of church and state. |
| Anne Hutchinson | believed a person coudl worship God without a church, minister, or Bible. She conducted discussions in her home that challenged church authority. She was tried and forced to leave Mass. |
| Quakers | religious group, name takedn from leader who said that they should "tremble" (quake) at the word of the Lord. Believed that all knew God by an inner light, neither ministers nor Bibles were needed. they believed that Native Americans should be treated fairly. For this they were whipped, imprisoned or hanged. many left for Rhode Island. |
| King Philip's War | Puritans Brutal war with the Native Americans King Philip was the English name for "Metacom" the leader of the Wampanoag. He organized an alliance of tribes. They lost and English expanded farther into Native American lands. |
| scapegoat | one who is made to bear the blame of others, Salem Witch Trials |
