Colonial Development Vocabulary 1

What is a company that sells stocks to raise money in order to pay for voyages to the new colonies?

• Joint Stock Company

• Puritan

• Cash Crop

What was the joint stock company established in 1606 to have a permanent English colony in North America

• Indentured Servant

• Jamestown

• Virginia Company

What was the first permanent English settlement in North America in 1607

• Puritan

• Direct Democracy

• Jamestown

What was a person who worked without pay for another person if they paid for their voyage to a new country?

• Indentured Servant

• Cash Crop

• Quaker

What was part of the lawmaking body in the colony of Virginia?

• House of Burgesses

• Jamestown

• Joint Stock Company

A religious group of people who settled in the colony of Pennsylvania established by William Penn?

• Mayflower Compact

• Direct Democracy

• Quaker

A members of the Church of England who did not agree with the church's practices was called?

• Puritan

• Jamestown

• House of Burgesses

What was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony?

• Puritan

• Mayflower Compact

• Indentured Servant

What is a crop grown to sell in order to make money called?

• jamestown

• Joint Stock COmpany

• Cash Crop

What is a form of democracy where people decide on policies directly?

• Virginia Company

• Direct Democracy

• Mayflower Compact