Joint-Stock Company/Corporate Colony - answer✔A group of investors - directors and
stockholders - ran colonies such as Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Virginia for
profit.
Plantations - answer✔A large government-owned or privately-owned farm where a single
commercial crop is grown.
Indentured Servants - answer✔A worker who agrees to provide a service for a specified time in
return for some form of payment, usually passage over to America in Colonial times.
House of Burgesses - answer✔A legislative assembly created in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. It
was the first representative government in what later became the United States.
Bacon's Rebellion - answer✔Rebellion of Virginia tobacco farmers upset with low prices, and
frontier settlers upset with no protection from Indians on the frontier. Jamestown was burned, but
war between Bacon and Governor Berkeley never happened because Bacon died.
John Peter Zenger - answer✔1734, he was arrested for libel, which is lying about a person's
character in the press. He won a court case that established the principle of freedom of the press.
patriot - answer✔a proud supporter of the American cause: at first, this meant freedom from
what were considered unfair British laws. Later on, it also meant a person who was in favor of
American independence from the British Empire.
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