F&C Round 2: Colonization Vocab

Front

An area under the control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

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colony

Front

Government of a country controlled by the people living there.

Back

self government

Front

Assembly of people chosen to speak on behalf of a larger group.

Back

representative government

Front

A group of people gathered together in one place for a common purpose.

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assembly

Front

An official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony.

Back

charter

Front

An organized assembly that has the authority to make up the laws for the colony.

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legislature

Front

The policy of using colonies to bring wealth to the Mother Country.

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Mercantilism

Front

Wanted to purify, or reform, the Catholic church

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Puritans

Front

A separatist group that left England in the early 1600's to escape religious persecution

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Pilgrims

Front

hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs

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Persecution