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13 Cards in this Set
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Substistence farming |
growing only enough for the farmer and family to survive |
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Charter |
a written contract issued by the government giving the holder the right to establish a colony |
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Mayflower Compact |
an agreement established by the men who sailed to America on the Mayflower. It called 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 disapproves |
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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 the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 who sought to reform the practices of the Church of England |
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Piligrim |
a member of the group that rejected the Church of England, sailed to America and founded Plymouth Colony |
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Apprentice |
a beginner who learns a craft from an experienced master |
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Mercantilism |
an economic system in which nations increase their wealth and power by obtaining gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of 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 midwife who believed that a person could worship God without the help of a 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 English colonists' taking of Native American lands by force. He ended up leaving the colony and settling 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 of all people are upon us." |
