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Ch. 2 Vocabulary Quiz
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Joint-Stock Company
Indentured Servant
Legislature
Salem Witch Trials
Isthmus
Great Migration
Haven
Proprietary Colony
Diversity
Sachem
1. ________A company funded and run by a group of investors who share company’s profits and
losses.
2. ________A safe place.
3. ________Migration of English settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony beginning in the 1630s.
4. ________The prosecution and execution of 20 women and men for witchcraft in Massachusetts
in 1692.
5. ________A colony granted by a king or queen to an individual or a group that has full governing
rights.
6. ________Variety.
7. ________A Native American leader.
8. ________A narrow strip of land that joins to larger land areas.
9. ________A lawmaking assembly.
10. ________A person who agrees to work for another person for a specified period of time, usually
7 years, under a contract, in return for transportation, food, and shelter.