Social Studies Vocab
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- Toleration Act
- A guarantee that all Christian had the right to worship as they please.
- Great Migration
- The movement of English settlers to the American colony from 1630-1640.
- Patroon
- Landowners in the Dutch colonies who recieved rent,taxes, and labor from tenant farmers.
- Proprietor
- Individual who recieved legal and exclusive right to a colony/owner.
- Mayflower Compact
- An agreement made by pilgrim leaders that ensured self government.
- Commonwealth
- A self governing political unit.
- Burgesses
- Elected representitives to a lawmaking body in the English colonies.
- Indentured Servant
- Person who agreed to work for a colonial employer for a specified time in exchange for passage to America.
- Pilgrim
- English Settlers seeking religious freedom in the Americas.
- Puritans
- Member of Anglican Church who wanted to purify the church.
- Indigo
- A plant that produces a blue dye.
- Royal Colony
- a colony under control of the English king.
- Massachusettes Bay Company
- Company formed in 1629 by puritans to start a colony in America.
- Thanksgiving
- A celebration of a bountiful harvest shared by the pilgrims and Native Americans.
- Charter
- Official document granting the right to settle and trade.
- Joint-Stock company
- Form of business organization;pooled funds of many investors or stockholders who can indeendently sell their shares of the company.
- Naval Stores
- Products of pine forest used in wooden shipbuilding and maintenence.
- Quakers
- Protestant reformer who believed in religious tolerance;also known as the society of friends.
- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
- The first American constitution or plan of government.
- Proprietary Colony
- A colony given to an individual by the king of England.
- Seperatists
- Those who left the Anglican Church.
- Constitution
- A document presenting a plan of government.
- Toleration
- The acceptance of different beliefs.
- Plantation
- Large farm worked by many laborers.