ss vocab- the thirteen english colonies

Question 1

joint stock company

Answer 1

a business organization backed by investors that helps raise money for settlements

Question 2

investors

Answer 2

people who put money into a project to make a profit

Question 3

shares of stock

Answer 3

piece of ownership in the joint stock company

Question 4

charter

Answer 4

written contract giving people the right to settle and trade in a certain area

Question 5

indentured servant

Answer 5

could not afford a trip to the New World so they sold their labor (work) for a passage to the New World (worked for 4-7 years)

Question 6

house of burgesses

Answer 6

the first representative form of government in the American colonies. Made laws for Jamestown

Question 7

persecution

Answer 7

bad treatment

Question 8

separatist

Answer 8

religious group that had broken free from the Church of England -pilgrims

Question 9

religious tolerance

Answer 9

the willingness to accept faiths difference from your own

Question 10

mayflower compact

Answer 10

an agreement signed by the pilgrims to obey any laws agreed for the good of the colony

Question 11

puritan

Answer 11

purify the church and get rid of certain catholic traditions such as instrumental music and christmas

Question 12

great migration

Answer 12

puritans leaving England in the 1630s and coming to America -wanted to practice their religion freely

Question 13

commonwealth

Answer 13

community in which people work together for the good of the whole

Question 14

dissenter

Answer 14

someone who challenges the generally accepted views of church or society

Question 15

proprietor

Answer 15

owner Ex. land, business