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The 13 Colonies
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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mercantilism | a way nations grew wealth |
House of Burgesses | the lawmaking body in the Virginia Colony |
representative government | government run by elected officials |
persecuted | treated badly and unfairly, usually because of religion, politics or race |
Pilgrims | the Mayflower colonists |
self-government | a government that gets its power from the people, not from kings or from force |
Puritans | a group of English colonists who wanted religious freedom |
Massachusetts Bay Company | a business with power from the king of England to set up a colony |