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| Founder of England's first American colony |
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| economic system that European nations used to enrich their treasuries |
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| first permanent English settlement in North America |
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| leader of the Jamestown colony |
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| land grant given to one who could pay his or her way to the colonies |
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| one who worked for a set time without pay in exchange for a free passage to America |
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| the Virginia assembly, which was the first representative assembly in the American colonies |
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| company funded by a group of investors |
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| person who puts money into a project to earn a profit |
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| written contract giving the right to establish a colony |
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| colony ruled by the king's appointed officials |
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