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Colonial America
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| agriculture | the system of growing crops |
| cash crops | a crop that is grown to sell, rather than be used by the grower |
| economic gain | an increase in the money you can make |
| economy | the system by which a group makes, uses, and shares or distributes goods and services |
| Mayflower Compact | an agreement made by the Pilgrims to govern themselves and make just laws |
| monarchy | a system of government where one person has absolute power and authority, such as a king |
| plantation system | a system where large farmed lands called plantations grew cash crops such as tobacco, coffe, cotton, sugar, and rice; they were controlled by European settlers and worked on by people from Africa who were enslaved |
| religious freedom | the right to choose your religion |
| representative government | a system of government where people elect representatives to run the government for them |
| Triangular Trade | trade routes which carried raw materials from the Americas to Europe, manufactured goods to the Americas and Africa, and enslaved people to the Americas. |
| Virginia House of Burgesses | the first legislative body in the American colonies that used representative government |
| Anne Hutchinson | was forced out of the Puritan colony of Massachusetts Bay for conducting bible studies in her home and saying faith in God was more important than church rule |
| Benjamin Franklin | he invented many things, including the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin Stove, swim fins, and more |
| John Smith | became a leader of the first English settlement in America known as Jamestown; he led the people out of a time of starvation and told the colonists, "If you don't work, you don't eat." He also developed relationships with the Powhatan tribe |
| Quakers | a group of Christians who believed in non-violence and were against slavery; they also lived in peace with people of different faiths; settled in Pennsylvania |
| Roger Williams | argued with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts that the civil leaders did not have the right to require everyone to worship exactly the same way. As a result, he was banished to Rhode Island where he allowed people to worship as they chose and kept church a |
| William Bradford | one of the drafters of the Mayflower Compact; governor of Plymouth; defveloped relations with local Native Americans who taught the Pilgrims how to farm and where to fish |
| William Penn | founded Pennsylvania for Quakers; allowed many other religions into Pennyslvania and kept peace with the local American Indians |
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