British North American Colonies: Regional Development, Labor, and Governance

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Joint-stock company
A private investment model where multiple investors fund a venture and share profits/losses.
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Indentured servant
A person who signs a seven-year labor contract to pay off passage to a colony and then gains freedom.
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Chattel slavery
Enslaved people legally defined as property.
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Jamestown
First permanent English settlement in North America, 1607.
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John Rolfe
Credited with the early tobacco experiments that stabilized Jamestown economically, 1612.
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Tobacco
Key cash crop that sustained early Virginia.
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Bacon's Rebellion
Colonial uprising highlighting tensions between frontier settlers and the colonial government (Berkeley) over protection and labor sources.
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Mayflower Compact
Early framework for self-government in New England.
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- Economic geography: New England