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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Colombian exchange | The massive transfer of goods such as animals, crops, people, culture, ideas and diseases. This was between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia after Colombus' voyage. |
| Colony | A distant settlement. |
| Virginia company | An English joint-stock company chartered by King James I in April 1606 to go to Jamestown for wealth. |
| Charter | A document made to set rules, decide how laws were made, how leaders were elected and it created the basic rights for settlers. |
| Tobacco | A controversial plant that supported the growth of the economy in early colonial america. |
| Democracy | The limited system of self-governance. |
| Persecuted | Punishing people that had different beliefs from societies standards. |
| seperatists | People from England who chose to break away from the Church of England due to having different beliefs or thinking it was corrupted. |
| Pilgrim | The settlers that went to Plymouth |
| plymouth | The english settlement founded in the 1620s in modern day Massachusetts. |
| Anglican church | The church of England during the 16th century. |
| representative government | A government where the citizens elect officials to make bigger decisions like making laws. |
| parliament | The law-making body of England |
| House of Burgesses | First democratically elected legislative body in British North America (Jamestown) |
| Mayflower compact | The first written framework of government and self-governance in what is now the United States. |