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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Indentured Servant | Individual who agreed to work without wages for period of in exchange for transportation to the colonies |
| Triangular Trade | Three-way pa ttern of trade that involved England |
| Middle Passage | The forced transport of enslaved Africans from West Africa to the Americas |
| Magna Carta | English Document from 1215 that limited the power of the king and provided basic rights to citizens |
| Parliament | Legislative body of a country |
| English Bill of Rights | Documents signed in 1682 that guaranteed the rights of English citizens |
| Habeas Corpus | Constitutional guarantee that no one can be held in prison without charges being filed |
| Salutary Neglect | British policy in early 1700s which allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as l ong as Great Britan was gaining economically |
| Mercantilism | Economic policy under which a nation accumulates wealth by exporting more goods than imports |
| Navigation Acts | The British trade laws enhanced by Parliament during the mid-1700s that regulated colonial Commerce |
| Enlightenment | Eighteenth-century movement during which European philosopher believed that society's problems could be solved by reason and science |
| Staple crop | Crops that are in steady demand |
| Cash crop | Crops grown for sale |
| Dame school | Elementary school during colonial times |
| French and Indian War | War fought from 1754 to 1763 in which Britain and its colonies defeated France and its Indian allies |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Declaration by the British king ordered all colonists to remain east of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Albany plan of Union | Benjamin Franklin's 1754 proposal to create one Government 13 colonies |
| Charter | Legal Document gibing certain rights to a person or company |
| Joint Stock Company | A company run by a group of investors who share the company's profits and losses |
| House of Burgesses | Representative assembly of colonial Virgina Formed in 1619 |
| Royal Colony | English colony that was under direct control of the crown |
| Proprietary colony | English colony granted to an individual or group by the crown |
| Puritans | English protestants who believed in strict religious discipline and simplification of worship; settlers of the Massachusetts bay colony |
| Separatists | Groups who wished to separate from the Anglican church to begine there own churches |
| Pilgrims | English Puritans who sought religious freedom and founded Plymouth |
| Mayflower Compact | Framework for self-government of the Plymouth colony signed on the ship the Mayflower in 1620 |
| Push Factor | Factors that motivate people to leave their home countries |
| Pull Factor | Factors that attract people to a new location |
| Great awakening | Religious movement in the English colonies during the 1730's and 1740's which was heavily inspired evangelical preachers |
| Lord Baltimore | * Founded and owned Maryland * Founded it as a refuge for Catholics |
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