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Term 2: Extended
Vocabulary for Term 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abolish | to get rid of, do away with; particularly refers to ending slavery |
| Abolition | legal end of slavery, especially of slavery of blacks in the U.S. |
| Dissenter | someone who disagrees with a majority opinion; in this case, an English Protestant who disagreed with the Church of England |
| Covenant | solemn promise; religious people might believe that God had a covenant to protect them if they followed his laws |
| Glorious Revolution | English 1688 peaceful overthrow of Catholic King James II for Protestant King William III and Queen Mary II |
| Privy Council | influential people who helped the king of England (or the governor of a colony) to make decisions |
| House of Burgesses | the legislative representative government in colonial Virginia |
| Head-right | a grant of land, usually 50 acres to a settler, given by certain colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries |
| Mercantilism | Colonies would provide the mother country with cheap raw goods that the mother country could then turn into manufactured goods and sell for high prices to the colony, |
| Persecution | hurting, punishing, or driving away a group of people because of their religion or race |