Chapter 1

Puritans

Group wanting to eliminate all Roman Catholic ritual from Church of England

Royal colony

A coming under direct control of the English monarch

Olive branch patition

A document sent by the second continental congress to King George 2, preposing a peace Between Great Britain and colonies

Joint stock company

Business in which investors pool wealth for a common purpose

Patriots

Colonists that supported american independence from Great Britain

Colonization

Establishment of outlying settlements by parent colonies

Quakers

Members of society that persecuted for beliefs

Minute man

Patriot civilian soldier just before and during revolutionary war pledged to be ready to fight at minutes notice

Indentured servant

Person contracted to work for another for limited period, often in return for a trip to new world

Martial law

Rule by military rather than civilian authority

Loyalists

Supported reign from England

Egalitarism

The belief that all people should have equal political, economic, social and civil rights

Profiteering

The selling of goods in short supply at inflated prices

Head right system

Virginias promise of granting 50 acres of land to any setting family per member