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Charter
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A document, issued by a sovereighn or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city or other corportate body is organized, and defining its rights
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Joint-Stock Company
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An association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock, much like a corporation except that stockholders are liable for the debts of the business
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Burgesses
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A representative in the popular branch of the colonial legislature of Virginia or Maryland.
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Jamestown
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A village in E Virginia: first permanent English settlement in North America. 1607.
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John White
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was an Englishartist, and one of several early English colonist who sailed with Richard Grenville in 1585 to the modern day coast of North Carolina. During his time at Roanoke Island, he made numerous famous drawlings with watercolour of the landscape and native peoples.
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John Smith
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English colonist explorer, and writer whose maps and accounts of his explorations in Virginia and New England were invaluable to later explorers and colonist.
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Colony
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A group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation.
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Mercantilism
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A system of political and economic policy, evolving with the modern national state and seeking to secure a nation's political and economic supremacy in its rivalry with other states. According to this system, money was regarded as a store of wealth, and the goal of a state was the accumulation of precious metals, by exporting the largest possible quantity of its products and importing as little as possible, thus establishing a favorable balance of trade.
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Powhatan
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1550-1618, North American Indian chief in Virginia, father of Pocahontas and founder of the Powhatan Confederacy.
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