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Foy Ch. 3 Vocab

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Jamestown   The first colony in America; set up in 1607 along the James River in Virginia.  
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indentured servants   A colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years.  
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Bacon's Rebellion   A 1676 attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and the colonial government in Virginia.  
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Toleration Act of 1649   A Maryland law that made restricting the religious rights of Christians a crime; the first law guaranteeing religious freedom to be passed in America.  
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slave codes   Laws passed in the colonies to control slaves.  
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Puritans   Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England.  
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Pilgrims   Members of a Puritan Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600's to settle in the Americas.  
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immigrants   People who move to another country after leaving their homeland.  
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Mayflower Compact   A 1620 document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government.  
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Quakers   Society of Friends; Protestant sect founded in 1640's in England whose members believed that salvation was available to all people.  
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staple crops   Crops that are continuously in demand.  
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town meeting   A political meeting at which people make decisions on local issues; used primarily in New England.  
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English Bill of Rights   A 1689 shift of political power from the British monarchy to Parliament.  
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triangular trade   Trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, and Africa.  
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Middle Passage   A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies.  
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Great Awakening   A religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730's and 1740's.  
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Enlightenment   The Age of Reason; movement that began in Europe in the 1700's as people began examining the natural world, society and government.  
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Committees of Correspondence   Committee's created by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 1760's to help towns and colonies share information.  
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Stamp Act of 1765   A law passed by Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newspapers, licenses, and legal documents.  
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Boston Massacre   A 1770 incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonist, killing five people  
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Tea Act   A 1778 law passed by Parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party.  
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Boston Tea Party   A 1773 protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more than 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.  
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Intolerable Acts   1774 laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control of the colonies.  
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