Colonial America Flashcards

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Markets

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A open place of covered building where buyers an sellers convene for the sales of goods.

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Protestant Reformation

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The schism within Western Christianity initiated by John Calvin and Martin Luther.

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Goods

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Article of trade; wares; merchandise

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Colony

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A group of people who eave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, parent nation

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Jamestown

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First permanent English settlement in North America 1607

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Raw materials

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An inlet of the Atlantic, off the east coast of Massachusetts

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New England

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An area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

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Southern Colonies

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Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina

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Pilgrims

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A person who journeys, especially a long distance, to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion

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Mayflower Compact

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An agreement to establish a government, entered into by the pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620

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Town Meeting

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A general meeting of the inhabitants of a town

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Agriculture

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The production of crops, livestock, or poultry

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Self-government

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The condition of being self governed

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Democracy

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Political or social equality

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Plantations

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a usually large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, or the like is cultivated, usually by resident laborers

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Cash crops

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Any crop that is considered easily marketable, as wheat, cotton or tobacco

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Puritan

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a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party

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Indentured servants

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a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, usually seven years, especially during the 17th to 19th centuries. Generally, indentured servants included redemptioners, victims of religious or political persecution, persons kidnapped for the purpose, convicts, and paupers

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Slavery

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the condition of a slave; bondage