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Colonization Vocab

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TermDefinition
Pilgrims A person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
Puritans People who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices.
Mayflower Compact Document signed by the Pilgrims to create self-government.
Religious Toleration The ability to appreciate spiritual values, beliefs and practices which are different from your own.
Banished Send (someone) away from a country or place as an official punishment.
Persecuted Treat someone to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.
Religious Freedom The ability to worship as you wish.
Self-government Government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony.
Economic How a person/business/country makes money.
Social Contract An agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits.
Palisade A type of fort surrounded by large stakes.
Cash Crop Crops, such as cotton or tobacco, grown in order to be sold for a profit-money earned.
Export Trade product sent to markets outside a country.
Charter Document from the king giving permission to colonize.
Indentured Servant A person who agreed to work for 3 to 7 years for passage to America.
Brackish A term that is used for water that is part saltwater and part freshwater.
Import Trade product brought into a country.
Compact A formal agreement supported by the people involved.
Representative Government Government in which people choose other people to vote or represent them.
Mercantilism European economic ($) policy which stated that colonies existed for the good of the mother country.
Subsistence Farming Growing barely enough to feed family.
House of Burgesses An assembly of elected representatives from Virginia; it was the first elected legislative government in the colonies.
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