US History in Film Vocabulary

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  1. 2. The prosecution and execution of 20 men and women for witchcraft in Massachusetts in 1692
  2. 7. A person who agrees to work for another person for a specific period of time, usually seven years, under a contract. in return for transportation, food, and shelter
  3. 12. Any of several acts of parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals to Great Britain
  4. 14. Agreement in which settlers of Plymouth Colony agreed to obey their government's laws
  5. 17. Revolt in 1676 by Virginia colonists against the royal governor
  6. 19. Colony with a governor appointed by the King
  7. 20. One leg of the the triangular trade, also used to refer to the forced transport of slaves
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  1. 1. operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries, carrying slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers
  2. 3. A city in south western New York
  3. 4. a form of church membership among the Congregational churches of New England allowed by decisions in 1657 and 1662 and permitting baptized persons of moral life and orthodox faith to enjoy privileges of full membership except the partaking of the Lord's Supper
  4. 5. War, beginning in 1675, between English colonist and Native Americans
  5. 6. Economic theory that a country should acquire as much bullion, or gold and silver as possible by exporting more goods than imports
  6. 8. refers collectively to two joint stock companies chartered under James I on 10 April 1606 with the goal of establishing settlements on the coast of North America.
  7. 9. One of the early English settlers of North America, he was credited with the first cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the colony of Virginia
  8. 10. Virginia legislation formed in 1619
  9. 11. A member of an American Indian people of eastern virginia
  10. 13. Critic of puritan leadership of Massachusetts Bay colony; banished for her religious beliefs
  11. 15. People who favored the purification of England's Anglican Church
  12. 16. A Puritan religious leader of the seventeenth century, born in England. After he was expelled from Massachusetts for his tolerant religious views, Williams founded the colony of Rhode Island as a place of complete religious toleration.
  13. 18. A Native American woman notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown