Colonization and Exploration

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What is a Charter?

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A written contract executed to grant or guarantee rights, franchises, or privileges from the sovereign power of a state or country.

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What is colonization?

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A large-scale population movement where the migrants maintain strong links with their or their ancestors' former country, gaining significant privileges over other inhabitants of the territory.

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What is Push Factors?

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Any kind of influencing factor that motivates a person to leave one's country or region

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Pull Factors

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Conditions that attract people to a country or region.

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What is Religious Toleration?

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People allowing other people to think or practice other religions and beliefs.

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What is religious persecution?

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The systematic mistreatment of an individual or a group of individuals as a response to their religious beliefs or affiliations or their lack thereof.

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What is self-government?

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The government under the control and direction of the inhabitants of a political unit rather than by an outside authority broadly : control of one's own affairs.

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What is a Plantation System?

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An agricultural mass production, usually of a few commodity crops grown on large farms called plantations.

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What is a Representative Government?

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An electoral system where citizens vote to elect people to represent their interests and concerns.

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What is an assembly?

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