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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 charter | a document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area |
| joint-stock company | one in which investors buy stock in the company in return for a share of its future profits |
| burgesses | elected representatives to an assembly |
| persecution | the harsh treatment of someone because of that person's beliefs or practices |
| Puritan | Protestants, who, during the 1600s wanted to reform the Anglican Church |
| Separatist | Protestants, who during the 1600s wanted to leave the Anglican Church in order to found their own churches |
| Pilgrim | Separatists who journeyed to the colonies during the 1600s for religious purposes |
| toleration | the acceptance of different beliefs |
| proprietary colony | a colony in which the owner, or proprieter, owned all the land and controlled the government |
| indentured servant | a laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America |
| constitution | a formal plan of government |
| joint stock company | a group of merchants like The Virginia Company |
| charter | The Virginia Company received one from King James I and eventually settled in Jamestown |
| burgess | the first House of __________ met for the first time in a church in Jamestown |
| burgess | The Virginia Company let the colonist have some say in the govt with the ___________ |
| persecuted | English Catholics were ___________ for believing the Pope was the head of the church |
| Separatist | were persecuted in England & fled to Netherlands |
| Separatists | worried their children were losing their religious values & English way of life in Netherlands |
| Separatists | went to Virginia and made an agreement with Virginia Company |
| Pilgrims | someone who makes a journey for a religious reason |
| Pilgrims | beliefs shaped life in Plymouth colony |
| toleration | Puritans had little of it |
| toleration | absence of it led to new colonies being formed |
| proprietary colonies | New York and New Jersey were ___________________ |
| proprietary colonies | the New England colonies were not ______________________ |
| toleration | Quakers had it |
| indentured servant | many people came to the colonies as _______________ |
| indentured servants | Maryland imported them to work plantation fields |
| constitution | John Locke wrote one for the Carolinas |
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