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31 Cards in this Set
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Bacon's rebellion
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attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and the colonial government in Virginia
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covenant
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sacred agreement
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Middle Passage
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voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the west Indies
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balance of trade
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relationship between what goods a country purchases from other countries and what goods it sells to other countries
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Puritans
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Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England
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Separatists
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radical group of Puritans who wanted to cut all ties with the church of England
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dissenters
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people who disagree with official religious or political opinions
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Mayflower Compact
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legal document written by the Pilgrims to specify basic laws and social rules for their colony
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protestants
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reformers who protested certain practices of the catholic church
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House of Burgesses
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Colonial Virginia's elected assembly
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Pilgrims
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members of a Puritan Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600's to settle in the Americas
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bicameral legislature
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lawmaking body made up of two houses
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Navigation Acts
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series of English laws that regulated trade in the American colonies in order to increase profits
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Protestant Reformation
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religious movement begun by Martin Luther and others in 1517 to reform the Catholic church
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triangular trade
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trading networks in which goods and slaves moved between England, the American colonies and West Africa
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duties
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taxes on imported goods
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charter
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official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony
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imports
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items a country purchases from other countries
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inflation
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economic condition in which both the amount of money in circulation and the price of goods increase
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Parliament
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the British legislature
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libel
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false, printed statement that damages a person's reputation
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Great Migration
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mass migration of thousands of English people to the Americas that took place between 1629 and 1640
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indentured servants
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colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
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conquistadores
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Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain
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sect
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a religious group
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immigrants
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people who move to another country after leaving their homeland
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proprietors
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owners
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town meeting
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New England political meeting at which people made decisions on local issues
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exports
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items that a country sells to other countries
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Quakers
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Protestant sect founded around 1647 in England that believed salvation was available to all people
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Privy Council
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group of royal advisors who set policies for Britain's American colonies
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