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10 Cards in this Set
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burgess |
a representative in the popular branch of the colonial legislature of Virginia or Maryland |
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charter |
a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges |
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constitution
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the system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, or the like, is governed |
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Sir Francis Drake |
English admiral and buccaneer: sailed around the world |
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estate |
a piece of landed property, especially one of large extent with an elaborate house on it. |
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Sir Walter Raleigh |
English explorer and writer, a favorite of Elizabeth I. |
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John Rolfe |
English colonist in Virginia |
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pacifist |
opposed to war or to violence of any kind. |
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patroons |
a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey |
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John White |
puritan |
