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Colonial America: Key Terms and Concepts

Explore and understand the vocabulary related to the early colonial period, including terms like joint stock company, Mayflower Compact, and House of Burgesses. Learn about the challenges, movements, and individuals that shaped colonial America.

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Colonial America: Key Terms and Concepts

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  1. Chapter 3 Vocabulary

  2. Joint stock company • A company that was backed by investors to earn profits

  3. Indentured servants • Sold their labor to pay for passage to a colony

  4. Patroon • A person that brought 50 settlers to New Netherland

  5. Pilgrim • A group of religious seperatists

  6. Puritan • Reformers within the Church of England

  7. Challenger • One who seeks change – Anne Hutchinson- challenged Puritan leaders

  8. Governor • A position of political power – Peter Stuyvesant was the Governor of New Netherland

  9. Proprietary colony • A colony owned by a person -Duke of York - proprietor of New Netherland - renames it New York.

  10. Tolerance • A fair attitude • Practiced by the Quakers – William Penn

  11. Refuge • A safe place - James Oglethorpe – Georgia refuge for debtors

  12. Mayflower Compact • Established the idea of self government in the colonies

  13. migration • A large group of people moving • The great migration - Puritans

  14. charter • Government issued written contract

  15. Work ethic • A belief in the importance of working hard, a job well done – John Smith - Jamestown

  16. purify • To cleanse

  17. Representative Government

  18. House of Burgesses • First representative assembly in the colonies

  19. rebellion • defianceofanyauthority

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