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- 3. Compact-agreement signed by the male Pilgrims to respect laws agreed upon for the general good of the colony.
- 5. passage-leg in the triangular trade pattern between Africa and the West Indies that transported African slaves who eventually ended up in North America.
- 7. the Bible for them.
- 8. Trade-transatlantic system of trade in which goods and people, including slaves, were exchanged between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in North America.
- 10. Members of a 17th-century English religious group that believe the Anglican Church should purify itself by abandoning much of its ritual and ceremony.
- 12. House of Burgesses-first elected assembly in the New World.
- 13. Exchange- The transfer of goods between the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe.
- 14. English nobility who received large land grants in eastern Virginia from the King of England.
- 15. Founded in 1607, it was the first permanent English settlement in the New World.
- 16. Awakening-a religious movement, led by George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards that swept both Europe and the colonies during the mid-1700s; it emphasized emotional spirituality.
- 17. democracy-system of government in which the citizens of a community debated and voted directly on all laws; practiced by the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 19. farming-growing only enough to feed one's family.
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- 1. Company of London-Financed the establishment of Jamestown as a business venture.
- 2. Colonies-Colonies that developed an economy based on shipbuilding, small-scale farming, and trading; highlighted by cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore; home to multiple religious groups.
- 4. England Colonies-colonies that developed an economy based on shipbuilding, fishing, lumbering, small-scale subsistence farming, and manufacturing; society was based on religious standing.
- 6. theory that countries should acquire gold and focus on exporting goods and owning colonies.
- 9. servants-people who agreed to work on tobacco plantations for a fixed period of time to pay for passage to the New World; poor people from England; Ireland and Scotland.
- 11. Hutchinson-Puritan dissenter who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for teaching that worshippers needed neither the church nor its ministers to
- 13. community-A society formed by the Separatists, that was based on the principles of their religious beliefs and the Mayflower Compact.
- 18. Williams-Puritan dissenter who set up a new colony in Rhode Island.
- 20. crop-such as tobacco, rice, and indigo, that were grown for export to Europe; not grown for the farmer's use.
