Early Colonies

the joint-stock company that began the settlement of Jamestown

• The Virginia Company

• The Massachusetts Bay Company

• The House of Burgesses

• Bacon's Rebellion

law making assembly in colonial Virginia-Representative Democracy

• house of burgesses

• bacons rebellion

• cavaliers

• indentured servant

an uprising in VA in which a group of angry farmers raided Native villages

• Indentured Servant

• Bacon's Rebellion

• House of Burgesses

• Puritan Democracy

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

• StockX

• Stock Market

• The Dow Jones

• joint stock company

nickname of wealthy land owners in Jamestown and the southern colonies who were given land by the king

• Indentured servants

• Knights

• Cavaliers

• The Virginia Company

men or women who sold their labor for the cost of a trip from England to the Colonies. Typically worked for 5-7 years

• Indentured Servant

• slave

• farmer

• gentleman

Farm crop raised to be sold for money.

• rice

• harvest

• Cash Crop

• corn

the first governing document of Plymouth Colony

• House of Burgesses

• Bacons Rebellion

• Mayflower Compact

• Puritan Theocracy

Non Traditional women (and a couple men) were thought to be witches and were punished by execution in 1692-1693.

• Fundamental orders of Connecticut

• Salem Witch Trials

• King Philips War

• Quakers

Considered the first written Constitution in America. It provides that all free men share in electing their magistrates, and uses secret, paper ballots. It states the powers of the government, and some limits within which that power is exercised.

• Mayflower Compact

• U.S. Constitution

• Great Awakening

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut