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15 Cards in this Set
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colonization
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the establishing of a settlementin a distant country by a group of immigrants who remain associated with their parent country
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Craftsmen
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people who practice a craft with great skill
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Debtors
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people who owe money.
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economic venture
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a money making undertaking;for example, when the Virginia Company of London sent settlers to the New World.
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Indentured Servants
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men or women who agreed to work without pay in order to have their passage paid to the New World.
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Mayflower Compact
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An agreemant in which the Pilgrims decided to set up government and make fair laws.
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Proprietor
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Owner of a colony.
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Puritans
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Members of a group who wanted simpler forms of worship and stricter morals.
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quakers
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religous gruop that settled the Pensylvania Colony; one who "trembeled at the word of the Lord
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raw materials
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matials thathave not been processed(trees, cotton, tobacco)
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religious persecution
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to cause to suffer because of a belief, particularly a religious beleif
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religious reformers
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peolpe who formed various Protesant churches
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separtist
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one hwo withdraws from a church, a dissenter
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slaves
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africans who were owned as property for life, with no rights
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social postition
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one's place in society
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