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S.S. Vocabulary
Colonial American
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |