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colonial american
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is an economic venture? | Any undertaking with the goal of making money |
| What is a separatist? | A group of people who want to be separate from everyone els |
| What is persecution? | constant bad treatment because of religion or bad backround |
| what is a puritan? | A group of people who are trying to purify the church of Englan |
| what are Quakers? | A christian group of people who didn't believe in war and fighting and the had there own way of doing things |
| what is a debtor? | A person who owes another person money |
| what are resources? | Items produced by human, natural, or capital means |
| what is Specialization? | Focusing on one or a few products |
| what is interdependent? | two or more people depending on each other for goods and services |
| what is a plantation? | A large property, usually used for growing crops, that you own |
| what are Indentured servants? | A person who agreed to work for a certain amount of time, usually 5 to 7 years |
| what is an artisan? | A skilled manual worker who uses tools or machines to preform a craft |
| what is a proprietor? | a person who owns a very large piece of land and acts as a governor of the area |
| what is colonial governor? | chosen by the king and they approved all the decisions in the colonies |
| what is colonial legislature? | made laws for each colony and where watched over by colonial governor |