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7 Cards in this Set
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Charter
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a written contract issued by the government giving the holder the right to establish a colony
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Mayflower Compact
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an agreement established by men who sailed to america on the mayflower which called for laws for the good of the colony
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Toleration
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the practise of allowing or permitting something
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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 Englan that settled in Massachuesetts Bay Colony in 1630 and sought to reform the church
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Pilgrim
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a member of a group that rejected the church of England, sailed to america and founded the Plymouth colony in 1620
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Subsistence farming
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growing only enough for the farmer and family to survive. Scant surplus can be traded but not enough is grown to call your bounty a cash crop
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