Chapter 5-=+=-New England-=+=-Vocab Flashcards
Dissent
Disagreement
Charter
An official paper in which certain rights are given by a government to a person, group, or business
Expel
To force to leave
Consent
Agreement
Sedition
Speaking in ways that cause other people to work against a goverment
Frontier
The lands beyond the areas already settled
Common
A grassy area shared by the town’s people, and used for grazing sheep, cattle, and other livestock
Town Meeting
An assembly of people in a New England town that made laws and elected leaders
Free-Market
An economic system where people are free to choose the goods and services they buy and make
Industry
All the businesses that make one kind of product or offer one kind of service
Navel Stores
Products used to build ships
Export
A product that leaves a country
Import
A product brought into a country
Triangular Trade Route
Shipping routes that connected England, the English colonies, and Africa
Middle Passage
The journey millions of enslaved Africans were forced to travel across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the West Indies
