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- Bacon's rebellion
- attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and the colonial government in Virginia
- covenant
- sacred agreement
- Middle Passage
- voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the west Indies
- balance of trade
- relationship between what goods a country purchases from other countries and what goods it sells to other countries
- Puritans
- Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England
- Separatists
- radical group of Puritans who wanted to cut all ties with the church of England
- dissenters
- people who disagree with official religious or political opinions
- Mayflower Compact
- legal document written by the Pilgrims to specify basic laws and social rules for their colony
- protestants
- reformers who protested certain practices of the catholic church
- House of Burgesses
- Colonial Virginia's elected assembly
- Pilgrims
- members of a Puritan Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600's to settle in the Americas
- bicameral legislature
- lawmaking body made up of two houses
- Navigation Acts
- series of English laws that regulated trade in the American colonies in order to increase profits
- Protestant Reformation
- religious movement begun by Martin Luther and others in 1517 to reform the Catholic church
- triangular trade
- trading networks in which goods and slaves moved between England, the American colonies and West Africa
- duties
- taxes on imported goods
- charter
- official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony
- imports
- items a country purchases from other countries
- inflation
- economic condition in which both the amount of money in circulation and the price of goods increase
- Parliament
- the British legislature
- libel
- false, printed statement that damages a person's reputation
- Great Migration
- mass migration of thousands of English people to the Americas that took place between 1629 and 1640
- indentured servants
- colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
- conquistadores
- Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain
- sect
- a religious group
- immigrants
- people who move to another country after leaving their homeland
- proprietors
- owners
- town meeting
- New England political meeting at which people made decisions on local issues
- exports
- items that a country sells to other countries
- Quakers
- Protestant sect founded around 1647 in England that believed salvation was available to all people
- Privy Council
- group of royal advisors who set policies for Britain's American colonies