Chapter 3 sections 1&2 #'s 1-6

Charters – the right to organize settlements in an area

Joint-stock company – when investors buy stock or part ownership in the company in the return for a share of its future profits.

Burgesses – two representatives from each town

Section 1

1) Because the settlers had to take orders from the Virginia company they became very irritated so the Virginia company allowed them to send 2 representatives called burgesses to the assemblies. The Virginia Company was also a joint-stock company, which is where people buy stocks in the company in the return for a share of its future profits. Several of the groups of merchants also wanted Charters from king James I.

2) So they could find gold and establish trade with fish and furs.

3) John Rolfe and the business and growth of tobacco.

4) So England’s businesses would grow and they could become wealthy.

5) Effects of Jamestown’s growth: production of tobacco and Start a sort of government

6) 30%

SECTION 2

Dissent – disagreed with the beliefs or practices of the Anglicans

Persecute – treated harshly

Puritan – the Protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican Church

Separatist – those who wanted to leave and set up their own churches

Pilgrim – a peoples journey that has a religious purpose

Mayflower compact – a formal document that stated the rules they were going to follow

Toleration – allowing something to continue that is annoying or frustrating.

1) Many people Dissented the Anglican church that King Henry III formed. Those who did agree with it however, were called puritans. Those who didn’t believe were called separatists and the Puritans had very little tolerance with them so many of were persecuted. Those who weren’t, wanted religious freedom, so they headed to the Americas, and were then known as pilgrims. When they arrived on the mayflower they decided they needed to set up some rules like a government for them to abide by so they didn’t have to be under anyone else’s rule, this document was and is known as the mayflower compact.

2) So they can have religious freedom and believe in whatever religion they wished to

3) Freedom of religion

4) They both played a huge role in the constitution and in representative government in America

5) The colonists interact with the native Americans in three ways: trade, war, and the Native Americans helped the colonists adapt to the land.

6) Rum, furs and lumber.