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25 Cards in this Set
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Charter
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Document issued by a government that grants rights to a person/company
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Representative Government
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Form of government in which voters elect people to make laws for them.
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Pilgrim
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Person who takes a religious journey
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Establish
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to set up, found
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Sustain
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To keep going, to support as just
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Toleration
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Recognition that other people have the right to different opinions
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Specify
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Describe or point out in detail
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Restrict
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Confine; keep within a certain boundary or limit
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Fundamental
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Most important part; foundation of an idea or action
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Accumulate
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Collect slowly; to increase in amount over time
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Debtor
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person who can't pay his/her debts
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Proprietor
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Owner of a business or colony
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Contrast
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Difference shown between things when compared
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Presidio
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Military post where soldiers livedin the Spanish colonies
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Pueblo
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Town in the Spanish colonies
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Function
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Purpose, proper use; official duty
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Convert
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To change from one purpose or function to another
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Rights
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Power, priveledge given to a person by law, nature or tradition
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John Smith
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"He who works not, eats not" Southern colony leader
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Anne Hutchinson
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Boston woman questioned Puritans, established settlement in RI
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John Winthrop
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Puritan leader of Massachusetts Bay
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Roger Williams
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founded Providence, RI in 1636 for religious freedom
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Thomas Hooker
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Founded Hartford, Connecticut in 1636. expanded trade
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William Penn
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Founded Pennsylvania in 1682, profit from land sales
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Nathaniel Bacon
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Leader of frontier settlers. Helped poor colonists obtain land
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