Made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money and receives some share of the profits and debts.

A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area.

The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia in 1607.

English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607.

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

Elected assembly in colonial Virginia, created in 1618.

Western 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.

Mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs.

A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.

A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

Group of people assembled for religious worship.

English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preached a doctrine of pacificism, inner divinity, and social equity.

A written plan of government.

One 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.

The first attempted European settlement in the Americas (1584). it ultimately failed.