Term | Definition |
endure | lasting |
fetid | having a fowl or rotten smell. |
slave codes | laws passed in the colonies to control slaves. |
anachronism | An error in time or place. |
pilgrim | A member of a Puritan Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600s to settle in the Americas. |
Great migration | A time where many people left England. They went to English colonies in New England and the Caribbean. |
Puritan | Protestants who wanted to reform the church of England. |
City on a Hill | Speech given by John Winthrop to Puritans to encourage them to be a model or example for the world. |
quakers | Protestant sect founded in the 1640s in England whose members believed that salvation was available to all people. |
scourge | punishment, made to suffer. |
refuge | A safe place. |
religious tolerance | Accept or permitting other's religious beliefs different from your own. |
religious persecution | Mistreatment of someone based on their religion. |
immigrant | A person who moves to another country after leaving his or her own homeland. |
mayflower compact | A document written by pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government. |
English Bill of Rights | A shift of political power from British monarchy to Parliament. |
triangular trade | A trading network in which goods and slaves moved among England, The American colonies, and Africa. |
middle passage | A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies |
allocate | Given out in portions according to plan. |
vehement | Forceful, with intensity. |