Exploration and Colonization Vocabulary

Representative Government

• political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws

• 1620: English settlers who sought religious freedom in the Americas

• legislature in England

• Product, service, or goods. Something you can buy, sell, or trade.

Magna Carta

• A 1620 SOCIAL CONTRACT for ruling the Plymouth Colony signed by Pilgrims

• Signed in 1215, a British document that stated Monarchs have to obey the laws and citizens have basic rights

• the mistreatment of people because of their beliefs.

• Lands settled by a mother country to gain power and wealth.

Mayflower Compact

• Representative assembly in colonial Virginia

• Willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

• A natural waterway through or around North America

• A 1620 SOCIAL CONTRACT for ruling the Plymouth Colony signed by Pilgrims before they landed at Plymouth

House of Burgesses

• igned in 1215, a British document that stated Monarchs have to obey the laws and citizens have basic rights

• Group of people who have the power to make laws

• Representative assembly in colonial Virginia

• a safe place or sanctuary, usually in a church.

Columbian Exchange

• Willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

• Group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay

• A natural waterway through or around North America that did not exist

• The global exchange of goods and ideas resulting from the encounter between the Eastern and Western hemispheres.

Pilgrims

• Group of people who have the power to make laws

• 1620: English settlers who sought religious freedom in the Americas

• legislature in England

• Crop sold for money at market

Puritans

• Person who cannot pay money he or she owes

• Group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630

• a safe place or sanctuary, usually in a church.

• Willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

Northwest Passage

• A natural waterway through or around North America that did not exist

• Group of people who have the power to make laws

• Lands settled by a mother country to gain power and wealth.

• A safe place or sanctuary, usually in a church.

Protestant Reformation

• Movement to reform the Catholic Church in the 1500s that led to the creation of many different Christian churches

• Person who cannot pay money he or she owes

• Signed in 1215, a British document that st

• political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them

Religious Tolerance

• Willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

• Group of people who have the power to make laws

• Person who cannot pay money he or she owes

• the mistreatment of people because of their beliefs.