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| a business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit |
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| a written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony |
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| the first permanent English settlement in North America |
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| a person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America |
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| created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies |
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| a revolt against powerful colonial authority in Jamestown by Nathaniel Bacon and a group of landless frontier settlers that resulting in the burning of Jamestown in 1676 |
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| a member of the group that rejected the church of England, sailed to America and founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620 |
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| an agreement established by the men who sailed to America on the Mayflower, which called for laws for the good of the colony and set forth the idea of self government |
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| a member of a group from England that settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and sought to reform the practices of the church of England |
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| the movement of Puritans from England to establish settlements around the world, including 20,000 who sailed for America |
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| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
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| a set of laws that were established in 1639 by a Puritan congregation who had settled in the Connecticut valley |
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| a war between the Puritan Colonies and Native Americans in 1675-1676. |
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| a colony with a single owner |
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| a person who believed all people should live in peace & harmony |
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| a colony ruled by governors appointed by a King |
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| a person who brought so settlers to New Netherlands and in return received a large land grant and other special privileges |
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