VUS.2 Vocabulary

A government for which people make decisions for themselves, rather than electing a representative. Practiced by Puritans in New England colonies.

• Covenant Community

• Direct Democracy

• House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

A company in which investors buy shares to share risk. An example was the Virginia Company of London.

• Cavaliers

• Joint-Stock

• House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

Wealthy “gentlemen” from England, given land in Virginia by the King of England.

• Cavaliers

• Governors

• Puritans

• Separatists

Territory under the immediate political control of a state.

• Colony

• Jamestown

• Proprietorship

• Sphere of Influence

The first permanent English colony in the New World (1607). Started by the Virginia Company of London.

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

• Providence

• Roanoke Island

A religious group that binds itself together by an agreement, or covenant. Created by Puritans in Massachusetts.

• Cavaliers

• Covenant Community

• Mayflower Compact

• Separatists

A religious group that left England for religious freedom, settled in the colonies

• Calvinists

• Catholics

• Cavaliers

• Puritans

A person bound to labor in exchange for passage to the colonies, most often Virginia.

• Cavalier

• Indentured Servant

• Puritan

• Slave

Created in 1640’s in Jamestown, Virginia; it was the first elected body in the New World.

• Covenant Community

• Direct Democracy

• House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

Signed by Puritans before colonization, Puritans agreed to a

government and set of rules for the new colony.

• Covenant Community

• Direct Democracy

• House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact