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Ch 4 & 5 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Headright | system set up the London Company that gave 50 acres of land to colonists who paid their own way to VA |
| Indentured Servants | Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years |
| in | not |
| planters | wealthy farmers with large plantations |
| Sect | A religious group |
| immigrants | People who move to another country after leaving their homeland |
| Puritans | Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England |
| Separatists | Radical group of Puritans who wanted to cut all ties with the Church of England |
| Pilgrims | Members of a Puritan Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600s to settle in the Americas |
| Dissenters | People who disagree with official religious or political opinions |
| Dis | do the opposite of |
| Covenant | sacred agreement |
| Colonies | a body of people who settle away from, but maintain ties with their homeland |
| Proprietors | owners |
| Pro | earlier than, in front of |
| bicameral legislature | a lawmaking body made up of two houses |
| bi | two |
| town meeting | Political meeting at which people make decisions on local issues; used primarily in New England |
| libel | a false statement, usually published, that damages a person’s reputation |
| mercantilism | Practice of creating and maintaining wealth by carefully controlling trade |
| Balance of trade | relationship between what goods a country purchases from other countries and what good it sells to other countries |
| Imports | Items that a country purchases from other countries |
| Exports | Items that a country sells to other countries |
| ex | out of, outside |
| Duties | taxes on imported goods |
| free enterprise | Economic system in which there is competition between businesses with little government control |
| triangular trade | Trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, the West Indies and West Africa |
| tri | three, having three parts |
| cash crops | Agricultural products grown primarily to be sold for profits, not for personal use |
| slave codes | Laws passed in the colonies to control slaves |
| Apprentices | People who learn skilled trades from a master craftsperson |
| Staplecrops | Crops that are continuously in demand |
| Revivials | Public church gathering at which ministers preach to a large numbers of people |
| Scientific Method | Observation of and experimentation with natural events in order to form theories that could predict other events or behaviors |
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