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| workers who contracted with American colonists for food & 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 & 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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| a system of law based on precedent and customs |
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| freedoms people possess relating to life, liberty, and property |
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| areas of low, flat plains near the seacoast of Virginia and North Carolina |
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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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