8-1.3 Vocab

First permanent English settlement in the New World

A company in which investors buy stock in the company in return for a share of its profits

Provided land to anyone who paid their own passage or the passage of others to the settlement. Promoted the establishment of large plantations based on cash crops.

Large farms that were based on cash crops, made South Carolina a distinctly Southern colony

Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years.

First elected legislative assembly in the New World that was established in Virginia

Founded as a haven for religious groups persecuted in England, offered religious freedom, economy was based on harvesting lumber and trading

Those who wanted to separate from the Church of England and established a democratic society in the New England colonies

A separatist group that left England to escape religious persecution

Established a democratic society where people formed the government of the New England colonies

Settlers who lived in the New England colonies and enjoyed religious freedom and democratic society

Protestants whose views and opinions differed from those of the Puritans and were exiled to other parts of the colony

attracted a great diversity of people and religions, known as the "breadbasket" of the colonies, economy was based on fertile fields and good harbors

Promoted religious tolerance and believed everyone had an inner light, settled in Pennsylvania

colonies where the headright system encouraged the formation of large plantations with slave labor, economy was based on cash crops