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8 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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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 fourth the idea of self-government
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Puritan
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a member of a group from England that settled in 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 from the 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 could be traded to other villagers, but not enough is grown to call your bounty a cash crop.
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Interdependent
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to rely on one another to succeed and survive
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Toleration
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to allow something to be or be done without making a move to stop it
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Banish
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to force to leave a country
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