An economic arrangement by which a number of investors pool their capital for investment.
What is a joint-stock company?
100
English protestant reformers who sought to purify the Church of England of Catholic rituals and creeds.
Who are Puritans?
100
Migrants who, in exchange for transatlantic passage, bound themselves to a colonial employer for a term of service, typically between four and seven years.
What are indentured servants?
100
First permanent English settlement in North America founded by the Virginia Company
What is Jamestown?
100
Transatlantic voyage slaves endured between Africa and the colonies.
What is the middle passage?
200
A legal document granted by a government to some group or agency to implement a stated purpose, and spelling out the attending rights and obligations
What is a charter?
200
An agreement to form a majoritarian government in Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
Employed in the tobacco colonies to encourage the importation of indentured servants, the system allowed an individual to acquire 50 acres of land if he paid for a laborers passage to the colony.
What is the headright system?
200
Vast tracts of land along the Hudson River in New Netherlands granted to wealthy promoters in exchange for brining 50 settlers to the property.
What are patroonships?
200
Set of laws defining racial slavery beginning in 1662, including establishing the hereditary nature of slavery, and legally limiting the rights and learning of slaves.
What are slave codes?
300
Representative parliamentary assembly created to govern Virginia, establishing a precedent for government in the English colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
300
Series of laws passed to regulate colonial shipping; only English ships would be allowed to trade in English and colonial ports
What are the Navigation Laws?
300
Uprising of Virginia back-country farmers and indentured servants led by a planter initially in response to the Governor of Virginia's refusal to protect back-country settlers from Indian attacks
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
300
English joint-stock company that received a charter from King James I that allowed it to found the Virginia colony
What is the Virginia Company?
300
Bound together five tribes - Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
400
Passed by Maryland, it guaranteed toleration to all Christians but decreed the death penalty for those who denied the divinity of Jesus.
What is the Act of Toleration?
400
Administrative union created by royal authority, incorporating all of New England, New York, and East and West Jersey.
What is the Dominion of New England?
400
Agreement allowing unconverted offspring of church members to baptize their children.
What is the Half-Way Covenant?
400
Migration of 70,000 refugees from England to the North American colonies, primarily New England and the Caribbean.
What is the Great Migration?
400
Series of clashes between English settlers and Pequot Indians in the Connecticut River Valley
What is Pequot War?
500
Legal principle that the oldest son inherits all family property or land.
What is primogeniture?
500
Drafted by settlers in the Connecticut River Valley, document that was the first "modern constitution" establishing a democratically controlled government.
What are the Fundamental Orders?
500
Often-fiery sermons lamenting the waning piety of parishioners first delivered in New England in the mid-17th century.
What is jeremiad?
500
A series of assaults by Metacom on English settlements in New England.
What is King Philip's War?
500
Belief that the elect need not obey the law of either God or man