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| 582550520 | Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in North America founded by the Virginia company | |
| 582550521 | Joint stock company | short-term partnership between multiple investors to fund a commercial enterprise; such arrangements were used to fund England's early colonial ventures | |
| 582550522 | Lord Baltimore | founder of the 4th colony of the US, Maryland | |
| 582550523 | Act of toloration | - Passed in Maryland, guaranteed toleration to all Christians but decreed the death penalty for Jews and atheists | |
| 582550524 | Conversion | Intense religious experience that confirmed an individual's place among the visible saints; were expected to lead sanctified lives | |
| 582550525 | Sepratists | puritans who sought to break away entirely from the Church of England; after settling in Holland, some made their way to Plymouth Bay, MA | |
| 582550526 | visible saints | after going through a conversion process, and it was proven by the elders of the church, one was able to participate in giving the Eucharist and other important ceremonies within the church | |
| 582550527 | John Winthrop | 1588-1649 First governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630; envisioned a "city upon a hill" | |
| 582550528 | Great Migration | migration of 70,000 refugees from England to the North American colonies, primarily New England and the Caribbean | |
| 582550529 | Anne Hutchinson | She preached the idea that God communicated directly to individuals instead of through the church elders. She was forced to leave Massachusetts in 1637. | |
| 582550530 | Rodger Williams | 1603-83) Colonial clergymen and founder of Rhode Island, born in England. After being expelled from Massachusetts, he founded the commonwealth of Providence, based on religious freedom. | |
| 582550531 | Salutary neglect | unofficial policy of relaxed royal control over colonial trade and only weak enforcement of navigation laws | |
| 582550532 | Headright system | employed in the tobacco colonies to encourage the importation of indentured servants, the system allowed an individual to acquire fifty acres of land if he paid for a laborer's passage to the colony | |
| 582550533 | Middle passage | the route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade | |
| 582550534 | Indentured servants | People who could not afford passage to the colonies could become indentured servants. Another person would pay their passage, and in exchange, the indentured servant would serve that person for a set length of time (usually seven years) and then would be free. | |
| 582550535 | Bacon's rebellion | uprising of Virginia backcountry farmers and formal indentured servants led by Nathaniel Bacon; started with Governor William Berkeley's refusal to protect backcountry settlers from Indian attacks. This lead to the burning down of Jamestown | |
| 582550536 | Halfway covenant | agreement allowing unconverted offspring of church members to baptize their children. It signified a waning of religious zeal among second and third generation puritans | |
| 582550537 | Jeremiad | fiery sermons lamenting the waning piety of parishioners first delivered in New England in the mid-seventeenth century; named after the doom-saying old testament prophet Jeremiah | |
| 582550538 | Salem Witch Trials | Series of witchcraft trials launched after a group of adolescent girls in Salem, Massachusetts, claimed to have been bewitched by certain older women of the town. Twenty individuals were put to death before the trials were put to an end by the Governor of Massachusetts |
