The joint-stock company that began the settlement of Jamestown

A company in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profits.

Law making assembly in colonial Virginia-Representative Democracy.

An uprising in VA in which a group of angry farmers raided Native villages.

Wealthy land owners in southern colonies who were given land by the king.

Men or women who sold their labor for the cost of a trip from England to the Colonies. Typically worked for 5-7 years

Farm crop raised to be sold for money.

The first governing document of Plymouth Colony.

A revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1750s.

Peaceful religious group that settled mostly in Pennsylvania.

Government in which citizens vote on laws and select officials directly.

A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.

An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought.

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