social studies 6
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- banish
- force someone to leave
- meetinghouse
- the most important building in a Puritan village, the center of their religion and government
- Middle Passage
- the part of the triangular trade from Africa to America, which made the New England merchants very wealthy and involved slaves
- industry
- a business to make and sell a product or service
- wilderness
- a wild and unsettled land
- import
- items bought from distant places
- self-sufficient
- to provide for all of your own needs
- wampum
- the Native American form of money, made from polished shells that were put on strings
- magistrate
- the leader of a Puritan government
- dissenters
- people who disagreed with the views of their leaders.
- shipyards
- places where ships are built and repaired
- triangular trade
- a shipping route between Africa, Europe, and North America, so-called because the merchant ships involved took paths which formed a triangle