joint-stock company
A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.
Sir Thomas Gates and Sir Thomas Dale
Gates was governor of Jamestown in Virginia with Dale deputy governor. They kept colony alive by using military discipline but did not thrive
Starving Time
The winter of 1609 to 1610 was known as the "starving time" to the colonists of Virginia. Only sixty members of the original four-hundred colonists survived. The rest died of starvation because they did not possess the skills that were necessary to obtain food in the new world.
William Bradford
A Pilgrim, the second governor of the Plymouth colony, 1621-1657. He developed private land ownership and helped colonists get out of debt. He helped the colony survive droughts, crop failures, and Indian attacks.
John Winthrop
Puritan governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Speaker of "City upon a hill
Thomas Hooker
A Puritan minister who led about 100 settlers out of Massachusetts Bay to Connecticut because he believed that the governor and other officials had too much power. He wanted to set up a colony in Connecticut with strict limits on government.
Captain John Smith
Organized Jamestown and imposed a harsh law "He who will not work shall not eat" that saved the Virgina colony from certain death.
John Rolfe
He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony.
Peter Stuyvesant
The governor of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, hated by the colonists. They surrendered the colony to the English on Sept. 8, 1664.
Richard Nicolls
leader of the expedition that captured new Netherlands and became first governor of new York
Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret
Founders of the New Jersey Colony (Quaker Settlement)
George Fox
Founder of the Quakers AKA "Friends" and a huge influence on it's growth as a whole.
The original Settelrs of Virgina founded this town in 1607
Jamestown
Virgina's representive assembly
House of Burgesses
Qauker who veiwed his colony as a "Holy Experiment
William Penn
A small annual payment to a proprieter of a colony in exchnage for a grant of land
Headright
A servent bound to a master for a period of time in return for transportation to a colony
Indertured Servent
The center of local governements in New England
Town Meetings
A Women who was an outspoken critic of Massachusetts Bay orthodoxy exiled to Rhode Island for her Views.
Anne Hutchinson