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a document issued by a government that grants specific rights to a person or company

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charter

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the of government in which voters elect people to make laws for them

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representative government

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a person who takes a religious journey

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pilgrim

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the first written plan of government in the English colonies

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Mayflower Compact

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cash crop that made Virginia profitable

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tobacco

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crop grown for sale

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cash crop

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first representative body in North America

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House of Burgesses

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he brought the Pilgrims seeds to grow crops

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Squanto

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recognition that other people have the right to different opinions

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toleration

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leader of the Puritans in Massachussets

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John Winthrop

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Governor of the Pilgrims in Plymouth for thirty years

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William Bradford

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founder of the colony of Rhode Island

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Roger Williams

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elected Assembly of Massachusetts

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General Court

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founder of the colony of Connecticut

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Thomas Hooker

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an assembly of townspeople that decides local issues

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town meeting

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Chief of the Wompanoag that led the Indians of New England to war against the English

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Metacom (or King Philip)

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a colony created by a grant of land form a monarch to an individual or family

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proprietary colony

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a colony controlled directly by the English king

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royal colony

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founder of the Pennsylvania colony

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William Penn

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Pennsylvania was established a colony to protect this religious sect

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Quakers

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frontier region extending through several colonies from Pennsylvania to Georgia

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backcountry

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founder of the colony of Maryland

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Lord Baltimore

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founder of the colony of Georgia

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James Oglethorpe

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people who owe money

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debtors

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a large farm

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plantation

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