history vocab.
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username7777 on September 6, 2011
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vocab. for history class
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 charter | the right to organize a settlement in an area |
| the virginia company | merchants who received a charter to colonize the colony of virginia, was a joint-stock company |
| joint-stock company | company that investors could be stock, or part owenership of, for a share of its future profits |
| 1607 | the year jamestown was founded; jamestown is the first permanent english settlement in the american colonies |
| headright | land grant given by the virgnia company to encourage settlement |
| representitive government | a type of government in which laws are created by a group of people who represent everybody else |
| house of burgesses | an assembly of representatives in Virginia that meet to pass local laws |
| puritans | people who wanted to reform the anglican church |
| separatists | people who wanted to leave and set up their own churches |
| pilgrims | separatists considered themselves this because their journey had a religious purpose |
| mayflower compact | document written and signed aboard a ship in 1620 first plan of self-government ever put in force in the english colonies |
| william bradford | the leader of Plymouth colony |
| john winthrop | well-educated puritan, chosed to be the massachusetts bay colony's govorner |
| fundamental orders of connecticut | the first written constitution in america, and it described the organization of representative government in detail |
| roger williams | minister who was banished from massachusetts, established the first colony where people could worship freely |
| proprietary colony | a colony in which the owner, or proprietor, owned all the land and controlled the government |
| quakers | known as the "society of friends", they believed everyone was equal, and were pacifists, people who refused to use force or fight in wars |
| william penn | founder of Pennsylvania, and member of the quakers |
| act of toleration | act in maryland that granted protestants and catholis the right to worship freely |
| mason-dixon line | a line that diveded maryland and pennsylvania necessary to stop the argument between the two colonies over boundaries |
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