Unit 2: 13 English Colonies Vocabulary

Backed by investors; people who put money into a project to earn profits.

• Brokers
• Stakeholders
• Joint Stock Company

• Shareholders

First permanent English settlement est. 1607. Named in honor of King James.

• Plymouth
• Charleston
• Roanoke
• Jamestown

Took control of Jamestown in 1608. Worked with the Powhatan tribe.

• Pocahontas
• George Washington
• William Bradford
• John Smith

These people sold their labor to the person that paid for their passage

• Free laborers
• Slaves
• Apprentices
• Indentured servants

Created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies.

• New York Provincial Congress
• Colony Assembly

• House of Burgesses

• House of Spurgeses

Nathaniel Bacon and followers to control of House of Burgesses and burned Jamestown to ground. 

• Jamestown

• Indentured Servants

• Bacons Rebellion

• Crispy Bacon

Separatist that rejected the Church of England.

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Baptists
• Lutherans

Laws signed by those on Mayflower, Self Government and majority rule

• Mayflower Compact

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

Puritan colonies fought a brutal war with the Native Americans.

• King Philip's War

• Puritan fight

• War for the Land

• Bacons Rebellion

A person that brought 50 settlers to New Netherland, awarded large land grant.

• John Smith

• Henry Hudson

• Pilgrims

• Patroon