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S.S. Vocabulary
Colonial American
Term | Definition |
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Charter | a document issued by a government that grants special rights to the person or company |
Representative Government | a government in which voters elect people to make laws for them |
Pilgrims | a person who make a religious journey; english separatists or those who wanted to separate from the english church, settled in plyocroth |
Puritans | religious group who settled in massachusetts and waned to purify or reform the church of english |
Toleration | willingness to let other practice their own custom and beliefs |
Town Meeting | meeting in which citizens discuss and vote on local community issues |
Proprietior | man who owned a proprietary colony |
Proprietary Colony | english colony in which the english king gave land to a man in exchange for a yearly payment or to pay a debt |
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 other in england |
Back Country | a frontier region along the appalachian mountains from pennsylvania to georgia |
Debor | a person who owes money |
Indentured Servants | person who agreed to work without pay for 7-10 years, in exchange for an expensive passage out of europe |
Middle Class | in the 13 english colonies, people who were skilled craft |
Gentry | highest social class in the colonies |
Triangular Trade | colonial trade route between new england, africa, and west indies |
Cash Crop | crop sold for money ( tobacco, cotton, rice , ect) |
Plantation | large farming estates in the south, that required many workers |
Subsistence Farming | farming that produces enough food for the family with a small amount left to trade |
Self- Sufficient | able to supply one's needs without external assistance |