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History Chapter Three

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Model of Christian Charity
A famous speech written by John Winthrop talking about how working together brings success
Sir Walter Raleigh
Founder of England's first American colony
Mercantillism
Economic system that European nations used to enrich their treasuries
Jamestown
First permanent English settlement in North America
John Smith
Leader of the Jamestown colony
Headright
Land grant given to one who could pay his or her way to the colonies
Indentured Servant
One who worked for a set time without pay in exchange for a free passage to America
House of Burgesses
The Virginia assembly, which was the first representative assembly in the American colonies
Joint-Stock Company
company funded by a group of investors
Investor
Person who puts money into a project to earn a profit
Charter
Written contract giving the right to establish a colony
Royal Colony
Colony ruled by the king's appointed officials
What saved Jamestown?
When Jamestown produced tobacco, it saved them. When Lord de la Warr came, he helped them survive.
Lord de la Warr
Man who saved Jamestown
John Rolfe
Man married to Pocahontas and the one who sent the first shipment of tobacco to England
Puritan leader who became the first governer of the Massachusettts Bay Colony
John Winthrop
Pilgrims
Separtist group that traveled to America to gain religious freedom
Mayflower Compact
Document that helped establish the practice of self-government
Puritans
English dissenters who wanted to reform the Church of England
Great Migration
The movement of over 10,000 English settlers to New England during the 1630s
Roger Williams
Puritan dissenter who established Rhode Island
Puritan dissenter who was banished from Massachusetts
Anne Hutchison
Fundamental Orders of CT
Document that has been called the first written constitution of America
Quakers
Group of Protestant dissenters
Dissenter
Person who dissagrees with an official church
Persecute
To mistreat
Tolerance
Acceptance of different opinions
Congregation
Group of people who belong to the same church
To force someone to leave a place
Banish
Lord Baltimore
Catholic owner of the colony of Maryland
Margaret Brent
Attorney of the governor of Maryland
Maryland law that forbade religious persecution
Act of Tolleration
Huguenots
French Protestants
James Oglethorpe
The Founder of Georgia
Proprietary Colony
Colony goverened by a singl owner, or proprietor
Elite
Highest-ranking social group
Diversity
Variety
Region
Distinct area of land
Tidewater
Flat land along the coast
New Netherland
Dutch colony that later became New York
Peter Stuyvesant
Governor of the Dutch colony of New Netherland
Quaker founder of Pennsylvania
William Penn
Patroon
Person rewarded with a large land grant for bringing 50 settlers to New Netherland

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