Chapter 3: Colonial America

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charter

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

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joint-stock company

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

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headright

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a 50-acre grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way to the colony

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burgesses

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representatives of the colony's towns that made local laws for the colony

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Puritan

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Protestants who wanted to reform the Angelican Church

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dissent

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disagreed with the beliefs or practices of the Angelicans

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Separatist

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those who wanted to leave & set up their own churches

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Pilgrim

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Separatists who journeyed to the colonies during the 1600s for a religious purpose

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Mayflower Compact

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formal document that settlers pledged loyalty to England, declared intention for forming a civic governing body & promised to obey all laws

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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

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first written constitution in America that described the organization of representative government