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Social studies notes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| : a crop, such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton, raised in large quantities and sold for profit | Cash crop |
| a formal document issued by the king that outlined a colony’s geographic boundaries and specified how it would be governed | Charter |
| : ruled by the people. In a democracy, citizens elect representatives to make and carry out laws. | Democratic |
| : an agreement that Pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the Americas | Mayflower Compact |
| : an economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies | mercantilism |
| : the business of capturing, transporting, and selling people to force them into enslavement | slave trade |
| : an agreement made in 1215 listing the rights granted by King John to all free men of the kingdom | Magna Carta |
| Governing body of england | Parliament |
| an act passed by Parliament in 1689 that limited the monarch’s power by giving certain powers to Parliament and listing specific rights of the citizens | English Bill of Rights: |
| a revival of religious feeling and belief in the American colonies that began in the 1730s | Great Awakening: |