Jamestown & Plymouth - Fast & Curious Vocab

a written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony.

• charter

• cash crop

• House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

A minister from Salem, Massachusetts who called for separation of church and state and founded the colony of Rhode Island.

• John Smith

• Anne Hutchinson

• Roger Williams

• Bacon's Rebellion

A business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit.

• charter

• cash crop

• joint-stock company

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

A soldier and adventurer who took control of Jamestown in its first year.

• Roger Williams

• Anne Hutchinson

• John Smith

• Bacon's Rebellion

Created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies.

• Mayflower Compact

• House of Burgesses

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• charter

A person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America.

• Pilgrims

• Puritans

• Indentured Servant

• Anne Hutchinson

An agreement established by the men of Plymouth Colony which called for laws for the good of the colony and set forth the idea of self-government.

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

A crop produced for profit rather than personal use.

• cash crop

• charter

• Mayflower Compact

• House of Burgesses

The first permanent English settlement in North America (founded in 1607).

• Pilgrims

• Puritans

• Jamestown

• House of Burgesses

A revolt against powerful colonial authority in Jamestown in 1676.

• House of Burgesses

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Mayflower Compact

• Bacon's Rebellion