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7 Cards in this Set
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Charter
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A written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony.
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Subsistence Farming
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Growing only enough for the farmer and the family to survive. Scant surplus could be traded to other villagers, but not enough is grown to call your bounty a cash crop.
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Mayflower Compact
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An agreement established by the men who sailed to America on the Mayflower which called for laws for the good of the colony and set forth the idea of self-government.
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Toleration
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The practice of allowing or permitting something, in particular difference in opinion or behavior.
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Banish
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To send someone away from their community
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Puritan
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A member of a group from England that settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and sought to reform the practices of the Church of England.
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Pilgrim
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A member of the group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to America, and founded the Plymouth colony in1620.
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