Name one difficulty Europeans had when attempting to colonize.
Possible answers: (1) how to pay for voyages, (2) struggled to survive the long trip, (3) dealt with hunger, sickness, and a lack of organized government
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corporations of Englishmen who pooled money and allowed others to buy shares of stock; funded the colonies
joint-stock companies
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granted by the king to each joint-stock company that contained rules as to where a colony was located and how it would be administered
charter
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one of the best-known joint-stock companies; part of this company financed Jamestown
Virginia Company
15
The three types of colonies
charter, royal, and proprietary
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the type of colony governed by a charter granted by a king
charter colony
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the type of colony given to an individual by a king
proprietary colony
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the type of colony the king took direct control
royal colony
15
Name three physical hardships the colonists had to face in the New World.
(1) lacked food and shelter, (2) sickness and diseases, (3) relations with Indians, (4) had to learn to support themselves, (5) had to form a new culture
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The New England colonies
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire
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the colony founded by people searching for religious freedom
Massachusetts
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Another name for the Church of England
Anglican Church
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By what two groups of people was the colony of Massachusetts founded?
separatists and puritans
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the group of people that chose to separate themselves from the Anglican Church
Separatists
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the group of people who hoped to purify the Anglican Church of the Roman Catholic practices and ceremonies
Puritans
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a group of Separatists that left Europe and established the Plymouth Colony
