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Colonial Period

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show A community that ABIDES BY REGULATIONS set forth in a WRITTEN AGREEMENT  
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show AGREEMENT written and signed by PILGRIM LEADERS before leaving the Mayflower to form a GOVERNMENT and submit to the will of the majority  
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religious freedom   show
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religious intolerance   show
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show WILLINGNESS TO GRANT EQUAL FREEDOM of expression to other religious groups, such as QUAKERS in the mid-Atlantic  
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immigrant   show
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show a system of government in which the PEOPLE OF A COMMUNITY have the opportunity to VOTE TO CREATE NEW LAWS  
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show a GATHERING OF PEOPLE in NEW ENGLAND to discuss and VOTE ON NEW LAWS, practicing DIRECT DEMOCRACY  
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economic opportunity   show
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cavalier   show
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land grant   show
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show POOR PEOPLE who WORKED FOR OTHERS in the New World for a number of years IN EXCHANGE FOR THE COST OF THEIR TRAVEL from Europe  
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Virginia Company of London   show
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show the FIRST PERMANENT ENGLISH SETTLEMENT in NORTH AMERICA  
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show the FIRST ELECTED ASSEMBLY in the NEW WORLD that has OPERATED CONTINUOUSLY SINCE THE 1640’S  
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Virginia General Assembly   show
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show An economy based on SELLING CROPS grown on FARMS AND PLANTATIONS  
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France   show
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show the main REASON that so many NATIVE AMERICANS DIED after the Europeans arrived  
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show the year that JAMESTOWN WAS ESTABLISHED  
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show the EUROPEAN COUNTRY from which many people CAME TO THE CARIBBEAN AND CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA  
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Africa   show
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show the two EUROPEAN COUNTRIES who had the MOST CONFLICT NATIVE AMERICANS in the New World  
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1619   show
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show how societies produce, distribute, and consume of goods and services; HOW A REGION MAKES MONEY  
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show PRIVATE BUSINESSES with MINIMAL GOVERNMENT REGULATION  
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show SEAPORTS and commercial centers in the MIDDLE ATLANTIC states  
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show a crop that could be grown in LARGE QUANTITIES on plantations and SOLD FOR A PROFIT in Europe  
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show SMALL FARMS that supported the needs of a FAMILY  
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Puritans   show
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show Members of the CHURCH OF ENGLAND; all Englishmen were expected to belong to this church  
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show TOLERANT RELIGIOUS GROUPS that settled in the MIDDLE ATLANTIC colonies – Quakers in Pennsylvania, Jews & Huguenots in New York, and Presbyterians in New Jersey  
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Methodists & Baptists   show
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Great Awakening   show
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Middle Passage   show
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