Colonies Unit III
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 charter | legal document giving certain rights to a person or company |
| House of Burgesses | Representative government in colonial Virginia- |
| Pilgrioms | 1600s English settlers who sought religious in the Americas |
| Mayflower compact | agreement in Plymouth Colony that set the process for creating laws in the colony |
| Puritans | group of English Protestants who settled in New England |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | first written plan of government in America |
| Town Meeting | meeting in colonial New England where settlers discussed and voted on issues |
| Proprietary Colony | English colony where the king gave land in exchange for a yearly payment |
| Royal Colony | colony under the direct rule of the king |
| cash crop | crop grown for money- rice, tobacco, cotton |
| quaker | Protestants who believed in equality for all |
| Middle Passage | trip of slaves from Africa to the East Indies |
| indentured servant | person who agreed to work without pay for a period of time in exchange for passage to the colonies |
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