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Ch.2 Vocab
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the ownership of human beings as property | Chattel Slavery |
| where colonists sought to replicate, or at least approximate, economies and social structures they knew at home. | neo-Europes |
| from the crown, which allowed them to claim tribute in labor and goods from Indian communities. | encomienda |
| The movement of diseases and peoples across the Atlantic was part of a larger pattern of biological transformation that historians call the | Columbian Exchange |
| English merchants had long supplied European weavers with high-quality wool; around 1500, they created their own outwork textile industry. | outwork |
| Merchants bought wool from the owners of great estates and sent it "out" to landless peasants in small cottages to spin and weave into cloth. The government aided textile entrepreneurs by setting low wage rates and helped merchants by giving them | NEXT CARD |
| monopolies in foreign markets. This system of state-assisted manufacturing and trade became known as | Mercantilism |
| To foster the flow of migrants, the Virginia Company allowed individual settlers to own land, granting 100 acres to every freeman and more to those who imported servants. The company also created a system of representative government: the _______________ | NEXT CARD |
| first convened in 1619, could make laws and levy taxes, although the governor and the company council in England could veto its acts. | House of Burgesses |
| Shocked by the Indian uprising, James I revoked the Virginia Company's charter and, in 1624, made Virginia a ____________ . Now the king and his ministers appointed the governor and a small advisory council, retaining the locally elected House of | NEXT CARD |
| House of Burgesses but stipulating that the king's Privy Council (a committee of political advisors) must ratify all legislation. | Royal Colony |
| farms owned by individual men or families | Freeholds |
| guaranteed 50 acres of land to anyone who paid the passage of a new immigrant to the colony; thus, by buying additional indentured servants and slaves, the colony's largest planters also amassed ever-greater claims to land. | headright system |
| contracts bound the men - and the quarter who were women - to work for a master for four or five years, after which they would be free to marry and work for themselves. | Indentured servitude |
| were religious separatists- Puritans who had left the Church of England. | Pilgrims |
| Protestants who did not separate from the Church of England but hoped to purify it of its ceremony and hierarchy-fled to America. | Puritans |
| companies that founded colonies and were often granted royal charters to administer land and trade in North America | Joint-stock corporation |
| the idea that God saved only a few chosen people. | Predestination |
| arguing that political magistrates had authority over only the "bodies, goods, and outward estates of men: not their spiritual lives. | Toleration |
| accused various Boston clergymen of placing undue emphasis on good behavior. Like Martin Luther, Hutchinson denied that salvation could be earned through good deeds. There was no | Covenant of works |
| through which God saved those he predestined for salvation. | Covenant of Grace |
| However, all families received some land, and most adult men had a vote in the___________________ the main institution of local government | Town Meeting |
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