2018 Am.1 Unit 1 pt..2

was the first democratically-elected legislative body in British North America.

• Jamestown

• Mayflower Compact

• House of Burgesses

• Town meetings

the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.

• Joint-stock company

• Middle Passage

• Plymouth

• Headright

A person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a new country

• Massachusetts Bay

• Proprietary colony

• King Philip’s War

• Indentured servants

granted legal land to settlers, it was between 1-100 acres, and it was given to anyone that could cross the Ocean to help populate the colonies, this was a part of the indentured servant system, and led to a conflict between landowners and servants.

• Headright

• House of Burgesses

• Powhatan Confederacy

• Proprietary colony

A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.

• Joint-stock company

• Plymouth

• Proprietary colony

• Middle Passage

an amount of land given to individuals allowed to set up a colony and granted full rights of self-government by the British crown

• Joint-stock company

• Proprietary colony

• Massachusetts Bay

• Headright

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

• Plymouth

• Massachusetts Bay

• Jamestown

• Proprietary colony

Colony founded by Pilgrims. This colony was only successful due to beneficial relations with the Indians and opened up the idea of religious toleration, it was absorbed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691.

• Puritans

• Plymouth

• Massachusetts Bay

• Jamestown

1629 - King Charles gave the Puritans a right to settle and govern a colony in the Massachusetts Bay area. The colony established political freedom and a representative government.

• Massachusetts Bay

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

• Puritans

members of a religious reform movement that arose within the Church of England

• Puritans

• Indentured servants

• Powhatan Confederacy

• Headright