Chapter 3 Flashcards
Joint-stock company
merchants financing a colony
investors
People who invest of hopes of making a profit
Mercantilism
Way to enrich treasuries
Charter
Permission to form a colony
Persecute
Mistreat
Roanoke
The lost colony
John Smith
Saves Jamestown
John Rolfe
Discovered a form of tobacco that made him wealthy
Pocahontas
The daughter of a chief who married John Rolfe
Separatists
Wanted to separate from the Church of England
Mayflower Compact
Agreement to follow majority rule
Squanto
An English speaking Indian who helped starving pilgrims survive by teaching them how to plant native crops.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Established first colony on Raonoke Island in North Carolina
Indentured servant
Work a number of years for passage to America
Dissenter
People who disagreed with the church