Colonial Period
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| covenant community | A community that ABIDES BY REGULATIONS set forth in a WRITTEN AGREEMENT
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| Mayflower Compact | 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 | FREEDOM TO PRACTICE the RELIGION of your choice
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| religious intolerance | UNWILLINGNESS TO GRANT EQUAL FREEDOM of expression to other religious groups, such as PURITANS in New England
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| religious tolerance | WILLINGNESS TO GRANT EQUAL FREEDOM of expression to other religious groups, such as QUAKERS in the mid-Atlantic
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| immigrant | a person who COMES TO A COUNTRY to take up PERMANENT RESIDENCY
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| direct democracy | a system of government in which the PEOPLE OF A COMMUNITY have the opportunity to VOTE TO CREATE NEW LAWS
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| town meeting | a GATHERING OF PEOPLE in NEW ENGLAND to discuss and VOTE ON NEW LAWS, practicing DIRECT DEMOCRACY
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| economic opportunity | the ability to MAKE A PROFIT through business ventures
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| cavalier | an ENGLISH NOBLE who came to the New World and was GIVEN LAND BY THE KING
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| land grant | a LARGE PIECE OF LAND in the New World GIVEN BY THE KING of England TO A CAVALIER
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| indentured servants | 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 | the company that STARTED the settlement at JAMESTOWN to
seek ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
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| Jamestown | the FIRST PERMANENT ENGLISH SETTLEMENT in NORTH AMERICA
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| Virginia House of Burgesses | the FIRST ELECTED ASSEMBLY in the NEW WORLD that has OPERATED CONTINUOUSLY SINCE THE 1640’S
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| Virginia General Assembly | the current LAWMAKING BODY of Virginia that STARTED in
the 1640’s AS THE VIRGINIA HOUSE OF BURGESSES
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| agricultural economy | An economy based on SELLING CROPS grown on FARMS AND PLANTATIONS
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| France | the European country that had the MOST PEACEFUL RELATIONSHIPS WITH NATIVE AMERICANS IN CANADA
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| disease | the main REASON that so many NATIVE AMERICANS DIED after the Europeans arrived
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| 1607 | the year that JAMESTOWN WAS ESTABLISHED
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| Spain | the EUROPEAN COUNTRY from which many people CAME TO THE CARIBBEAN AND CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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| Africa | the CONTINENT from which people were brought to the New World as SLAVES
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| England and Spain | the two EUROPEAN COUNTRIES who had the MOST CONFLICT NATIVE AMERICANS in the New World
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| 1619 | the year the FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICANS were brought to JAMESTOWN to work on TOBACCO PLANTATIONS
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| economy | how societies produce, distribute, and consume of goods and
services; HOW A REGION MAKES MONEY
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| free enterprise system | PRIVATE BUSINESSES with MINIMAL GOVERNMENT REGULATION
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| New York & Philadelphia | SEAPORTS and commercial centers in the MIDDLE ATLANTIC states
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| cash crop | a crop that could be grown in LARGE QUANTITIES on plantations and SOLD FOR A PROFIT in Europe
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| small-scale subsistence farming | SMALL FARMS that supported the needs of a FAMILY
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| Puritans | members of the Church of England who WANTED A PURIFIED
CHURCH without ceremonies and rich clothes; settled in New England INTOLERANT of other religions
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| Anglicans | Members of the CHURCH OF ENGLAND; all Englishmen were expected to belong to this church
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| Quakers, Jews, Huguenots & Presbyterians | 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 | EVANGELICAL RELIGIONS that spread throughout Europe and
the colonies during the “GREAT AWAKENING” in the mid-1700’s
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| Great Awakening | RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT DURING THE MID-1700’S led to the rapid growth of evangelical religions, challenged the established religious and governmental order, and laid social foundations for
American Revolution
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| Middle Passage | the middle part of the Triangle Trade ROUTE WHICH
BROUGHT SLAVES to the New World
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