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SS Vocab #3
Term | Definition |
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Charter | A document issued by a government that grants special rights to a person or company |
Representative Government | A government in which voters elect people to make laws for them |
Pilgrims | A person who makes a religious journey;English separatistis or those who wanted to separate from the English church (Plymouth, Mass) |
Puritans | Religious group who settled in Massachusetts and wanted to purify or reform the church of England |
Toleration | Willingness to let others practice their own customs and beliefs |
Town Meeting | Meeting in which citizens discuss and vote on local community issues |
Proprietor | Man who owned a proprietary colony |
Propriety Colony | English colony in which the king gave land to a man in exchange for a yearly payment or to pay a dept |
Royal Colony | Colony under the control of the English King |
Quaker | Protestant reformers who believed that all people were equal in God/s eyes and who were despised by others in england |
Back country | a frontier region along the appalachian mountains from Pennsylvania to Georgia |
Debtor | a person who owes money |
Indentured servant | Person who agreed to work without pay for 7 to 10 years in exchange for passage to the colonies |
Middle Class | In the 13 colonies, people who were skilled crafts workers and small farmers |
Gentry | Highest social class in the colonies |
Triangular trade | Colonial trade routes between New England, Africa, and West Indies |
Cash crop | crop sold for money (tobacco, cotton, rice) |
Plantation | large farming estates in the south that required many workers |
Subsistance farming | Farming that produces enough food for the family with a small amount left to trade |
Self sufficient | able to supply ones needs without external assistance |