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The 13 Colonies
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| mercantilism | a way nations grew wealth |
| House of Burgesses | the lawmaking body in the Virginia Colony |
| representative | people in government who make decisions for the people who elect them |
| 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 |
| plantations | large farms where crops are grown |
| Puritans | group of English colonists who wanted religious freedom |
| colony | an area that is ruled by another country |
| cruel | causing pain and suffering |
| slaves | people who are owned and forced to work by someone else |