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Colonial Vocab
colonial vocab
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History
8th Grade
09/23/2009

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Burgesses
Definition
Elected representatives to an assembly
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Charter
Definition
A document that gives the right to organize settlements in an area.
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Puritan
Definition
Protestants who during the 1600's wanted to reform the Angelican church
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Sepratists
Definition
Protestants who during the 1600's wanted to leave the Angelican church in order to found their own churches.
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Pilgrim
Definition
A group of people who journeyed to the colonies for religious purposes.
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Mayflower Compact
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A formal document written in 1620 that provided law and order to the plymouth colony.
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Patroon
Definition
The captain or officer commanding a ship
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Pacifist
Definition
Strongly and actively opposed to conflict and especially war
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Indentured Servant
Definition
a person who signs and is bound to work for another for a specified time especially in return for payment of travel expenses and maintenance
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Constitution
Definition
The basic laws of a nation, state, or social group that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it
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Debtor
Definition
One guilty of neglect or violation of duty
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Tenant Farmer
Definition
A farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of produce
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mission
Definition
People sent to the colonies to establish a religious church
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subsistence farming

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farming or a system of farming that provides all or almost all the goods required by the farm family usually without any significant surplus for sale
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