Social Studies Grade 5 Chapter 5

Front

Official document giving a person or group permission to do something

Back

Charter

Front

Share (or part ownership) in a company

Back

Stock

Front

Crop grown to be sold for a profit

Back

Cash crop

Front

Person who agreed to work for someone for a certain amount of time in exchange for the cost of the voyage to North America

Back

Indentured servant

Front

Lawmaking assembly in colonial Virginia

Back

House of Burgesses

Front

Water route that explorers hoped would flow through North America, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

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Northwest Passage

Front

Person who travels to a new place for religious reasons

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Pilgrim

Front

Group of people from England who wanted to separate themselves from the Church of England. Some traveled to North America in search of religious freedom.

Back

Separatists

Front

Unjust treatment because of one’s beliefs

Back

Persecution

Front

Plan of government written by the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower

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Mayflower Compact