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Chap 3 vocab
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History
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09/16/2010

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Pilgrim
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people who left England because of religious conflict and sailed aboard the MAY FLOWER to North America
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Separatists
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Radical group of puritains including the pilgrims who seperated from the church of England and came to North America seeking religious freedom
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Puritans
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English Protestants who sought to "purify" the Anglican church of Catholic rituals and traditions
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Mayflower Compact
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document that establiched Plymoth Colony as a self-governing colony based on the majority rule of male church members
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Great Migration
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mass movement of puritans from England to Americas beginning on 1630.
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Covenant
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Commonwealth
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Political unit founded onaw in which members are expected to work together for the common good.
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Freeman
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People who enjoy full political and civil liberties
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New England Way
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Cooperation between church and state that was the basis for the Puritan commonwealth
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Toleration Act
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Maryland colonial law that guaranteed religious freedom to all christians
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Bacon's Rebellion
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1676 Uprisining by virginia settlers, disgruntled over taxes and land, that included attacking Indians, looting wealthy plantations, and buring Jamestown.
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House of Burgesses
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Virginia's colonial governing assembly
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Middle Passage
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Voyage made by slave ships from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean during which many slaves suffered and died
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Abolitionists
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people who wanted to end slavery
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Task System
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System in which plantation slaves were given specific duties each day
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Mercantilism
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Economic policy based on the view that a nations power depended on maintaning a favorable balance of trade by exporting more goods that is imported
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Navigation Acts
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series of mercantilist law designed to increase English merchants profits by limiting direct trade between English colonies and other Eurpoean NAtions
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