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Vocabulary Practice
Chapter 5
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History
8th Grade
11/20/2008

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Joint stock company
Definition
a bisness owned by many people
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John Smith
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a person who told colonists to plant and grow food and crops
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lord De La Warr
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ordered colonist to return to jamestown
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John Rolfe
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Married Pocahotis
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Apprentices
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A person who learns a tradefrom a skilled worker
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Indentured Servants
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A person who worked wihtout pay for a specifyed number a yearsin return for passage for a coloniy, clothing, food, and shelter
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House of Burgess
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The groupof selected officials in the 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 the official Church of england
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Pilgrims
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a personwho makes a journey for religous purposes, also a founder of the 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 islad and Massachuestts during the time of the colonization of plymouth
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John Winthrop
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a very good governer and new what the Massahutetts Bay Colony would look like
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Intolrant
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dont accept anything and dont want to be appart of it
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trianglar trade
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when tradeing routes starteed to look like triangles this is what it was called
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middle colonies
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4 colonies in the vast teritories between New England and virginia
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peter Stuyvesant
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a dutch governer who surrdered new amsterdam
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William Penn
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owned land that became the colony of pennsylvania
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Quakers
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a religous sect, or group, known as society of friends
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Surplus
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the amoun that was more than needed
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Southern Coloies
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the colonies in sothern america
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Lord Baltimore
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a roman cathlioc, he escaped the punishment for practicing his own religon
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James Oglethrope
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the first leadrer of Georgia
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Plantations
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a large farm in which crops are grown for sale and on which people who raises the crops live
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