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V US 2 Vocab

US History Vocabulary V US 2

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Western Passage - an inlet off of the Bay of Fundy just north of Eastport, Maine.
Columbian Exchange - to the exchange of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
Puritans - settled in New England, seeking freedom from religious persecution and economic opportunity
Covenant Community - based in ideas of the Mayflower Compact and religious principles
Mayflower Compact - the first written plan of government based on democracy in the New World
Direct Democracy - Direct democracy, also called pure democracy, forms of direct participation of citizens in democratic decision making, in contrast to indirect or representative democracy.
Quakers - a member of a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1650, Quakers reject sacraments, ritual, and formal ministry, hold meetings at which any member may speak, and have promoted many causes for social reform.
Joint Stock Company - business venture of people investing money to create a colony, in hopes of making a profit
The Virginia House of Burgesses - the first elected assembly in the New World
General Assembly - The Virginia General Assembly is the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the oldest continuous law-making body in the New World, established on July 30, 1619
Cavaliers - English nobility who received large land grants in eastern Virginia from the King of England
Indentured Servants - poor people who agreed to work on a plantation for a number of years in exchange for passage to the New World
Triangular Trade - refer to the trade in shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves, these slaves being shipped to the West Indies and exchanged for sugar, rum, and other commodities which were in turn shipped back to Britain
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