Paulson Vocabulary Nov. 20-29, 2023
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- Q1Made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money and receives some share of the profits and debts.joint-stock company30s
- Q2A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area.charter30s
- Q3The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia in 1607.Jamestown30s
- Q4English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607.John Smith30s
- Q5Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years.indentured servant30s
- Q6Elected assembly in colonial Virginia, created in 1618.House of Burgesses30s
- Q7Western Virginia settlers were angry at Virginia Governor Berkley for trying to appease the Doeg Indians after the Doegs attacked the western settlements. The frontiersmen formed an army, which marched on Jamestown and burned the city.Bacon's Rebellion30s
- Q8Mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs.persecution30s
- Q9A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.colony30s
- Q10A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.Puritans30s
- Q11Group of people assembled for religious worship.congregation30s
- Q12English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preached a doctrine of pacificism, inner divinity, and social equity.Quakers30s
- Q13A written plan of government.constitution30s
- Q14One of two joint-stock companies, along with the London Company, chartered with such a purpose as part of the Virginia Company. In form it was similar to the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London.Plymouth Company30s
- Q15The first attempted European settlement in the Americas (1584). it ultimately failed.Roanoke Colony30s