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new england colonies |
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, rhode island maine |
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subsistence farming |
growing only enough for the farmer and family to survive. Scant surplus could be traded to other villagers, nut not enough to cal tour bounty a cash crop |
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charter |
a written contract issued by the government giving the holder to establish a colony |
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mayflower compact |
an agreement established by the men who sailed to america on the may flower it called for laws for the good of the colony and set forth the idea of self government |
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toleration |
the practice of deliberately allowing a thing of which one disproves |
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banish |
send someone away from a place as an official punishment |
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puritan |
a member of a group from england that settled in the Massachusetts bay colony in 1630 who sought to reform the practices of the church of england |
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pilgram |
a member of the group that rejected the church of England sailed to America. and founded the plymyth colony |
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apprentice |
a beginner who learns to craft from an excpert master |
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mercantilism |
an economic system in which nations increase their wealth and power by obtaining gold and silver and establishing a favorable balance trade |
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navigation acts |
a series of laws passed by parliament beginning in 1651 to ensure that England made money from its colonies trade |
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anne hutchinson |
a puritan mid wife who believed that a person could worship god without the help of the church minister or bible |
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roger williams |
a minister in salem, Massachusetts who founded the first baptist church in america . he also opposed the English colonists taking of native amercan land bye force he ended up leaving the colony and moved to rhode island |
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John Winthrop |
puritan governor who believed that the puritan community was serving as a model for the rest of the world to follow he said "we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill the eyes off all people are upon us" |
