13 Colonies Vocabulary
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| Joint Stock Company/Corporation | Corporation that people invest in hoping that the exploration or colony financed will make a profit. |
| Charter | Document that gives a group of people the right to establish a colony. |
| Quaker | Believed that all people were equal in God's eyes. Settled Pennsylvania and created a colony where all had political and religious freedom. |
| Religious Toleration | Being tolerant of all religions. |
| Puritan | Protestant reformer who wanted to "purify" the church. They were kicked out of England and settled in Massachusetts. |
| Pilgrim | Protestant reformer who wanted to simplify the church. They settled in Plymouth. |
| House of Burgess | Representative assembly in Virginia. The first representative body in the English colonies. |
| Mayflower Compact | Document drawn up by the Pilgrims before getting off the Mayflower that told how the colony would be governed. |
| New England Town Meetings | Democratic meetings where the people in the town got to vote on local issues. |
| Mayflower Compact | 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth colony. It established the precedent of democratic rule in the English colonies. |
| Witch Trials | Putting a group of people on trial as "scape goats" to explain why something bad is happening. |
| Triangular Trade | Illegal trade between the colonies and Europe, Asia and Africa. England didn't shut it down since they were making a lot of money off of it. |
| Mercantilism | Economic policy that states that colonies exist for the financial benefit of the mother country. |
| Democracy | Political system where people have a say in electing representatives and making laws. |
| Indentured Servant | Person who trades their labor in order to learn a trade or pay for a trip to the colonies. |
| Immigration | Moving to a new country permanently. |
| Emmigration | Leaving your old country to move somewhere else. |
| Navigation Acts | Laws established by England in the 1660's to regulate colonial trade. |
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