Chapter 3 The English Colonies Vocabulary

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An official document that permitted colonists to settle on land claimed by their ruler:

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Charter

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A system creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade:

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Mercantilism

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Who trained the settlers of Jamestown to farm and work, saving the colony?

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John Smith

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These servants signed a contract to work for four to seven years for those who paid for their journey to America:

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Indentured servants

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Laws made by colonial planters that were designed to control the lives of enslaved African Americans:

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Slave codes

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A separatist group that left England in the early 1600s to escape religious persecution. They settled in Plymouth:

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Pilgrims

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A group of people who wanted to purify the Church of England. They settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony:

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Puritans

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A Wampanoag who lived with the Pilgrims, teaching them how to plant corn, use fish to fertilize soil and how to trap wild animals:

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Squanto (Tisquantum)

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A legal contract in which the Pilgrim men agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good. One of the first attempts at self-government in the colonies:

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Mayflower Compact

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He was granted a charter to start colony of Pennsylvania. A Quaker who wanted his colony to be a place where people could practice their religion freely:

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William Penn