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15 Cards in this Set
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What is a Puritan?
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A group of people who wanted to change the Church of England to make it more pure.
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What is a charter?
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An official paper in which certain rights are given by the government to a person or business.
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What is concent?
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To be in agreement
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What is the frontier?
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Land that is beyond the settled areas.
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What does the word industry mean?
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It includes all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service.
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What does the export mean?
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Goods going out of the country to be sold or traded.
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What does the word import mean?
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Goods that are brought into a country to be bought or traded.
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What is a triangular trade route?
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These routes connected England, the English colonies in North America, and the west coast of Africa.
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What does the word refuge mean?
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A safe place
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What does the word immigrant mean?
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A person coming to a country to make it their new home.
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What is an Almanac?
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A book issued once a year to help farmers know the best time to plant their crops
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What does the word militia mean?
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A volunteer army
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What is an indentured servant?
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A person who agreed to work for another pwrson without pay for a certain length of time in exchange for passage to North America.
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What is a debtor?
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People who were in prison because they could not pay their bills
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What is an overseer?
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People hired by planters to watch that their slaves as they worked, and punished them if they didn't
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