Unit 1: Building a nation: colonization and forging a new nation
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Chapters 2 &3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Joint- stock company | A Form of business organization in which many investors pool funds to raise large amounts of money for large projects. |
| Headright | A system in which settlers were granted land in exchange for settling in Virginia. |
| Separatist | A Puritan who broke away from the Anglican Church. |
| Squanto | The Native American who taught the Pilgrims about their new environment. |
| Heretic | A dissenter from established church beliefs. |
| Pacifism | Opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes. |
| Federalism | The political system in which authority is shared between a central govt.and state governments. |
| Capitalist | Person who invest wealth, particularly money, in a business. |
| Albany Plan of Union | Proposal by Benjamin Franklin to unite all the colonies to a federal government. |
| Sons of liberty | Groups that organized meetings and protests, trying to intimidate stamp distributors. |
| Non-importation agreement | An act signed by 200 merchants pledging not ro buy any British goods until Parliament repeals the Stamp Act. |
| Writes of assistance | A search warrant enabling customs officers to enter any location to look for evidence of smuggling. |
| Committee of correspondence | Committee organized in each colony to communicate with & unify the colonies. |
| Three-fifths compromise | ahe agreement by which the number of each state's representatives in Congress would be based on a count of all the free people plus three-fifths of the slaves. |
| Minutemen | Volunteer soldiers who were ready to fight in a moments notice. |
| Olive Branch Petition | A document written in 1775 by John Dickson that asserted colonist loyalty to the kig and asked him to call off hostilities until the situation was worked out peacefully. |
| Letter of Marque | A license issued authorizing the captain of a privately owned ship to attack the enemy merchant ships. |
| Manumission | Voluntary freeing of slaves. |
| Ratification | Formal approval. |
| Northwest ordinance | Enacted in 1787, t established a system for setting up governments in the western territories. |
| Inflation | Loss of Value of money |
| Virginia Plan | Proposed creating a new central government with the power divided among legislative,executive and judicial branches. |
| New Jersey plan | Proposed to modify the Articles of Confederation to make the central government stronger. |
| Popular sovereignty | Rule by the people |
| Customs duty | Taxes on imports and exports. |
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