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Chapter 5 Vocab Words
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11/19/2008

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joint-stock company
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a business owned by many people
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John Smith
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a 28 year old adventurer forced teh colonists to plant crops and build
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Lord De La Warr
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the leader who replaced John Smith, orderd the discouraged colonists to return to Janestwon.
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John Rolfe
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a farmer Pocahontas married
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apprentices
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a person who learns a trade from a skilled worker
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indentured servants
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a person who worekd without pay for a specified number of years in a return for passage to a colony, clothing, food, and shelter
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House of Burgesses
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the group of elected officials in teh Virginia Colony
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Puritans
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a person who wanted to change and "purify" the Church of England
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Separatists
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a person who wanted to separate from teh official Church of England
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Pilgrims
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a person who makes a journey for religious purposes, also a founder of Plymouth Colony
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Mayflower Compact
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the document in which the Pilgrims agreed to set up a government for the colony of Plymouth
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Wampanoag
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a tribe of Native Americans who lived in the areas of Rhode Island and massachusetts druing the time of the colonization of Plymouth.
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John Winthrop
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the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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intolerant
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different religious ideas in the own colony
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triangular trade
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triangle-shaped trade routes among the colonies, the West Indies, and Europe
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Middle Colonies
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the colonies between New England and the Southern Colonies: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
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Peter Stuyvesant
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Dutch governor
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William Penn
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the king gave him Pennsylvania
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Quakers
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a member of the religious sect known as the Society of Friends
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surplus
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an amount over what is needed
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Southern Colonies
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the southernmost of teh 13 colonies: Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
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Lord Baltimore
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Roman Catholic friend of the king , escaped punishment for practicing his religion
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James Oglethorpe
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the first leader of Georgia
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plantations
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a large farmon which crops are grown for sale and on which the people who raise the crops live
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