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  1. 6. an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia that met from 1643 to 1776.
  2. 9. a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
  3. 10. a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
  4. 12. was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Puritans, adventurers, and tradesmen
  5. 18. the action of traveling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it.
  6. 19. an act signed into law in 1689 by William III and Mary II,
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  1. 1. a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
  2. 2. Jamestown, founded in 1607, was the first successful permanent English settlement in what would become the United States. The settlement existed for nearly 100 years as the capital of the Virginia colony, but it was abandoned after the capital moved to Williamsburg in 1699.
  3. 3. a form of government with a monarch at the head.
  4. 4. An electoral system where citizens vote to elect people to represent their interests and concerns.
  5. 5. belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
  6. 7. limited government is the concept of a government limited in power. It is a key concept in the history of liberalism.
  7. 8. a person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country or area
  8. 11. is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.
  9. 13. the highest legislature, consisting of the sovereign, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons.
  10. 14. Rights that people supposedly have under natural law. The Declaration of Independence of the United States lists life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as natural rights.
  11. 15. Other civil liberties include the right to own property, the right to defend oneself, and the right to bodily integrity. Within the distinctions between civil liberties and other types of liberty, distinctions exist between positive liberty/positive rights and negative liberty/negative rights.
  12. 16. a person sent or authorized to represent others, in particular an elected representative sent to a conference.
  13. 17. the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.