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- 1. meeting of the voters of a town for the transaction of public business
- 4. Passage the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
- 7. act of 1649:The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians. It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony, in St. Mary's City.
- 8. Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia. Indentured servants were men and women who signed a contract (also known as an indenture or a covenant) by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter.
- 9. English Bill of Rights was an act signed into law in 1689 by William III and Mary II, who became co-rulers in England after the overthrow of King James II. The bill outlined specific constitutional and civil rights and ultimately gave Parliament power over the monarchy.
- 10. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- 11. are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends, Society of Friends or Friends Church.
- 14. Awakening The Great Awakening was an outburst of Protestant Revivalism in the eighteenth century.
- 15. codes the set of rules based on the concept that slaves were property, not persons.
- 16. compactThe Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
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- 1. trade a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
- 2. was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, which is considered as the "Century of Philosophy"
- 3. Separatists. The Separatists, or Independents, were English Protestants who occupied the extreme wing of Puritanism.
- 5. a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country
- 6. first permanent English settlement in North America, located near present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. Established on May 14, 1607
- 12. Crops are plants grown for their parts which are used as staple food.
- 13. The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and needed to become more Protestant.
