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Colonial America V
Colonial America Vocab words
Term | Definition |
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charter definition | an official document that grants it's holder a special right to make a new colony |
colony definition | a settlement far from the country that rules it |
cash crop | a crop to be sold for profit |
indentured servants | people that do slave work for a certain amount of time to get a trip to the new colonies |
house of burgesses | made laws for the colonies |
separatists | people that leave Europe and practice free religion in the colonies |
pilgrims | a group of separatists |
centuries | a hundred years |