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| House of Burgesses | was the first democratically-elected legislative body in British North America. |
| Middle Passage | the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. |
| Indentured servants | A person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a new country |
| Headright | granted legal land to settlers, it was between 1-100 acres, and it was given to anyone that could cross the Ocean to help populate the colonies, this was a part of the indentured servant system, and led to a conflict between landowners and servants. |
| Joint-stock company | A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts. |
| Proprietary colony | an amount of land given to individuals allowed to set up a colony and granted full rights of self-government by the British crown |
| Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607 in Virginia. |
| Plymouth | Colony founded by Pilgrims. This colony was only successful due to beneficial relations with the Indians and opened up the idea of religious toleration, it was absorbed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691. |
| Massachusetts Bay | 1629 - King Charles gave the Puritans a right to settle and govern a colony in the Massachusetts Bay area. The colony established political freedom and a representative government. |
| Puritans | members of a religious reform movement that arose within the Church of England |
| Mayflower Compact | It declared that the 41 males who signed it agreed to accept majority rule and participate in a government in the best interest of all members of the colony. Precedent for future governing documents. |
| Town meetings | a town-wide meeting to decide on issues facing the village and choose a group of people to govern the town for the coming year, restricted to adult male residents |
| John Winthrop | was an English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony, |
| Powhatan Confederacy | A group of seven Indian tribes that controlled Virginia. It was led by Powhatan and was an agricultural group. They allowed the original English Settlers to survive |
| Roger Williams | a Puritan minister, English Reformed theologian, and Reformed Baptist who founded the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. |
| Anne Hutchinson | she challenged gender roles and spoke out against the teachings of the Puritan ministers; she led a revolt against Mass. Gov.; was banished from Colony |
| King Philip’s War | The conflicts lasted from 1675 to 1676 and resulted in the destruction of several English settlements and the decimation of Indian bands in New England. |
