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SS Exam Review
Social Studies Exam Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| joint stock company | form of business organization |
| indentured servants | person who agreed to work for a colonial employer for a specified time in exchange for passage to America |
| charter | official document granting the right to settle and trade |
| Pilgrims | English settler seeking religious freedom in the Americas |
| Mayflower Compact | an agreement made by Pilgrim leaders that ensured self-government |
| toleration | the acceptance of different beliefs |
| constitution | a document presenting a plan of governmnet |
| proprietor | individual who received legal and exclusive right to a colony |
| Quakers | protestant reformer who believed in religious tolerance |
| export | a product that originates in one place and is sold in another |
| import | a trade product that is brought into a country |
| subsistence farming | when farmers produce only enough to feed and maintain their families |
| cash crop | food crop grown to be sold |
| frontier | a thinly settled area on the outer limits of a colony |
| slave codes | laws that denied enslaved Africans most of their rights |