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John Smith
An English explorer the founder of Jamestown (1580-1631)
James town
The first English permanent settlement founded in May 1607.
Joint stock company
corporation involving 2 or more legal persons. The company in return for each financial contribution, the shareholders can transfer their ownership at any time by selling their stock holding to others people.
Indentured Servant
A worker that is under a contract for a certain time of period in exchange for transportation, food and clothes.
Puritans
A group of English protestants in the 16th and 17th century.
John Winthrop
He was elected the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony but in 1639 and 1648 he was elected to governorship.
King Philips War
a conflict between the natives and the English colonists from 1675-1676
The head right system
A legal grant of land to settlers which helped the expansion of the 13 colonies.
The Calverts
Governor of new found land (1579 – 15 April 1632) and was an English politician and coloniser.
Bacon's Rebellion
In 1676 in the Virginia Colony, the first rebellion in the American colonies.
William Penn
An English estate entreprenuer, philosopher and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania.(1644-1718)
mercantilism
An economic theory, thought to be a form of economic nationalism that hold supply of capital.
navigation acts
a series of laws which restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England and its colonies, which started in 1651.
roger williams
between January and March 1683) was an American Protestant first one to proponent of religious freedom .
Anne Hutchinson
was a pioneer settler in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Netherlands .(1591-1643)
John coodes
(february -march 1709) is best known for leading a rebellion that overthrew Maryland's colonial government in 1689.
Rebellion
obedience or order for violent and organized attempts to destroy an established authority such as a government.
William Penn
An English estate entreprenuer, philosopher and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania.(1644-1718)
Quakers
outlawed at church oxfords fund colonies in Delaware under puritan influence in the 17th century.
navigation acts
a series of laws which restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England and its colonies, which started in 1651.
roger williams
between January and March 1683) was an American Protestant first one to proponent of religious freedom .
Anne Hutchinson
was a pioneer settler in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Netherlands .(1591-1643)
John coodes
(february -march 1709) is best known for leading a rebellion that overthrew Maryland's colonial government in 1689.
Rebellion
obedience or order for violent and organized attempts to destroy an established authority such as a government.