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Chapter 3 Vocabulary

Chapter 3 Vocabulary. Joint stock company. A company that was backed by investors to earn profits. Indentured servants. Sold their labor to pay for passage to a colony. Patroon. A person that brought 50 settlers to New Netherland. Pilgrim. A group of religious seperatists. Puritan.

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Chapter 3 Vocabulary

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  1. Chapter 3 Vocabulary

  2. Joint stock company • A company that was backed by investors to earn profits

  3. Indentured servants • Sold their labor to pay for passage to a colony

  4. Patroon • A person that brought 50 settlers to New Netherland

  5. Pilgrim • A group of religious seperatists

  6. Puritan • Reformers within the Church of England

  7. Challenger • One who seeks change – Anne Hutchinson- challenged Puritan leaders

  8. Governor • A position of political power – Peter Stuyvesant was the Governor of New Netherland

  9. Proprietary colony • A colony owned by a person -Duke of York - proprietor of New Netherland - renames it New York.

  10. Tolerance • A fair attitude • Practiced by the Quakers – William Penn

  11. Refuge • A safe place - James Oglethorpe – Georgia refuge for debtors

  12. Mayflower Compact • Established the idea of self government in the colonies

  13. migration • A large group of people moving • The great migration - Puritans

  14. charter • Government issued written contract

  15. Work ethic • A belief in the importance of working hard, a job well done – John Smith - Jamestown

  16. purify • To cleanse

  17. Representative Government

  18. House of Burgesses • First representative assembly in the colonies

  19. rebellion • defianceofanyauthority

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