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10 Cards in this Set
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Northwest Passage |
eager to find a water route through or around North America, Europeans sent explorers in search of this |
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Triangular Trade |
the three part route across the Atlantic to trade rum, manufactured goods, and slaves |
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Charter |
a document that grants the right to create a settlement in a particular area |
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Magna Carta |
signed in 1215 by King James, this is the first time limits were ever put on the power of the king |
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Slave Codes |
rules that governed the behavior and punishment of enslaved people |
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Colony |
a group of people who settled in a distant land but are still ruled by the government of their native land |
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House of Burgesses |
an assembly of elected representatives that made laws for the Jamestown colony |
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Mayflower Compact |
a 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth Colony |
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cash crop |
crops that could be sold easily in markets in the colonies and overseas |
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this was the first representative government in the New World |
House of Burgesses |
