| Term | Definition |
|---|
| charter | an official paper in which certain rights are given by a government to a person, group, or business |
| dissent | disagreement |
| expel | to force to leave |
| consent | agreement |
| sedition | speaking in ways that cause other people to work against a government |
| 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 |
| naval 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 |
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