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| the war in which the American colonists defeated Great Britain that resulted in America's independence. |
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| an immigrant to the American colonies who was obligated by contract to perform unpaid labor for a stated number of years as payment for their passage. |
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| "the economic policy of European nations during the era of discovery and colonization of the Americas, designed to make Europe rich and powerful" |
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| laws passed by the English Parliament during the colonial period designed to give England control over all trading and all transporting of goods between Great Britain and her colonies |
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| "a large group of islands between Florida and Venezuela, and east of Central America, where, beginning in colonial times and using the labor of African slaves, sugar was grown as the main cash crop." |
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| farmers who owned their own land in colonial times. |
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| the first permanent English settlement in North America founded in 1607 in Virginia |
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| "a language based on English, spoken by former West African slaves in and around the southern colonies" |
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| the horrific slave ship journey enslaved Africans were forced to take from Africa to the Americas |
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| "an elaborate system in which European merchants traded for slaves in Africa and shipped them across the Atlantic. Money earned from the sale of slaves in the Americas was used to purchase colonial commodities such as sugar, cotton and tobacco, which were finally sold in Europe." |
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| the elected legislature of colonial Virginia |
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| "a group of people who wanted to change or purify the Church of England. Also known as Pilgrams or Separatists, they first came to New England on the Mayflower in 1620" |
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| a written agreement by the Pilgrams in which they pledged to form a government and follow the rules of the group |
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| a type of government headed by a king or queen who becomes a country's leader by heredity rather than election |
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| a governement controlled by a small group of priviledged citizens such as European nobility |
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| "a system of government controlled by a small group of priviledged citizens, such as European nobility" |
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| large tracts of land in North America that were granted to favored individuals by King Charles II in the late 17th century. |
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| a bloodless revolution which occurred in England in 1688 that further reduced the power of the monarch. |
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| "a colony that was, in theory, owned and controlled directly by the King of England" |
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| "a political party in England in opposition to the Tory Party during the 18th and 19th centuries, later named the Liberal Party" |
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| a evangelical religious revival in the colonies in the 18th century |
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