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| workers who contracted with American colonist for food and shelter in return for labor |
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| The refusal to purchase certain goods. |
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| A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country. |
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| a written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governments. |
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A representative to a meeting. |
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| Self-reliance and freedom from outside control. |
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| movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve society. |
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| A group of people that makes laws. |
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| A colonial area of land controlled directly by a king or other monarch. |
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| Those who followed a religious faith other than the official religions of England. |
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| Colonial puritans who considered themselves people on a religious journey. |
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| Areas of low, flat plains near the seacoast of Virginia and N.C. |
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| Pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americas, Africa, and Europe. |
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| An agreement among people in a society with a government. |
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| The theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys. |
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| Investors provide partial ownership in a company organized for profit. |
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| A ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later, similar case. |
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| A colony ruled by settlers who came on their own. |
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| Religious dissenter who came to the colonies to purify, or reform, the Anglican church. |
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| The journey slaves made across the Atlantic to America. |
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| An agreement, or contract, among a group of people. |
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| Area with owner-controlled land and government. |
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