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Unit 2 vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Endure | Lasting |
| Fetid | Having a fowl or rotten smell |
| Slave Codes | Laws passed in the colonies to control slaves |
| Anachronism | An error in time or place |
| Pilgrim | A member of a Puritan Separist sect that left England in the early 1600s to settle in the Americas |
| Puritan | Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England |
| Great Migration | A period of African American movement from the South to the cities in the North |
| City on a hill | Speech given by John Winthrop to Puritan to encourage them to be a model or example for the world |
| Quakers | Society of Friends; Protestant sect founded in 1640s in England whose members believed that salvation was available to all people |
| Scourge | Punish, made to suffer |
| Refuge | A safe place |
| Religious tolerance | Accepting or permitting others' religious beliefs that are different form your own |
| Religious persecution | Mistreatment of someone based on their religion |
| Immigrant | A person who moves to another country after leaving his or her homeland |
| Mayflower Compact | A document written by the pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government |
| English bill of rights | A shift of political power from the British Monarchy to Parliament |
| Triangular trade | Trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the Americas and Africa. |
| Middle passage | A voyage that brought enslaved africans across the Atlantic Ocean to America and the West Indies |
| Allocate | Given out in portions according to a plan |
| Vehement | Forceful, with intensity |