Chapter 2 Vocabulary Review

a settlement controlled by a separate country​

• Charter

• Colony

• Peninsula

• City

an official document in which certain rights are given by a government to a person or business​

• Charter

• Declaration of Independence

• Bacon's Rebellion

• Mayflower Compact

an area of land surrounded by water on three sides​

• charter

• stock

• Island

• Peninsula​

a share in the ownership and profits of a company​

• cash crop

• stock

• representative democracy

• indentured servant

The winter of 1609-1610 when about ¾ of English colonists in Jamestown, Va died of Starvation​

• Blizzard

• Cultivate

• Starving Time

• Bacon's Rebellion

Early form of democracy established in the Virginia colony; they elect representatives to make laws for the colony​

• House of Burgess

• Mayflower Compact

• Harvest Celebration

• Powhatan Confederacy

a government in which the people have the power, but elect officials to represent them ​

• Stock

• House of Burgess

• Representative Democracy

• Separatists

A league of native Americans established near the Jamestown colony​

• Cultivate

• Indentured Servant

• Cherokee Indians

• Powhatan Confederacy

people who did not agree with the practices of the Church of England and no longer wanted to belong to the Church​

• Separatists ​

• House of Burgess

• Representative Democracy

• Indentured Servant

a formal agreement by the Pilgrims to establish their system of self-government in the Plymouth colony​

• Stock

• Enslave

• Mayflower Compact

• Starving Time