Unit 2 Test Practice Flashcards Colonial America

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A Colony

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Land where people from one country move to live and start a new community, still ruled by their original country.

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Joint-stock company

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A business where people buy shares to invest, sharing risks and profits.

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A Charter

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Special permission from a King or Queen allowing people to leave their home country and claim new land.

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Virginia Joint Stock Company

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In 1606, King James I gave the Virginia Company a charter to start a colony in the New World, creating the first English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.

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Subsistence Farming

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Growing just enough food to feed your family, common in Northern colonies due to rocky soil and long winters.

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Jamestown

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1607: The first permanent English settlement in North America, started by the Virginia Company as a money-making venture.

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1620

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Mayflower Compact: Agreement by the Pilgrims in Plymouth for self-government before leaving their ship.

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Mayflower Compact

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(1620): The first agreement for self-government in America, setting up majority rule for the Plymouth Colony.

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Plymouth Colony

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Settled by Separatists (Pilgrims) from the Church of England seeking freedom from religious persecution.

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The headright system

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Colonists could get about 50 acres of land for each person they brought to America, used by the Virginia Company to attract settlers.