Unit 3 Vocabulary

An economic policy that gives a country sole ownership of the trade occurring in its colonies.

• Mercantilism
• town meeting
• Mayflower Compact
• Charter

A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area

• Charter
• Natural Rights
• House of Burgesses
• Divine Right

The journey across the Atlantic Ocean undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.

• Middle Passage
• Triangular Trade
• Mercantilism
• Divine Right

Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from god.

• Divine Right
• Pilgrims
• Indentured Servant
• Freedom of the Press

the idea that all humans are born with rights, which include the right to life, liberty, and property

• Natural Rights
• Charter
• Middle Passage
• Freedom of the Press

the right of journalists to publish the truth without restriction or penalty

• Freedom of the Press
• Plantation
• joint-stock company
• Habeas Corpus

The popular term applied to all the Mayflower passengers. Pilgrims were members of a Puritan sect known as the Separatists.

• Pilgrims
• Divine Right
• Subsistence farming
• Habeas Corpus

The act of allowing something that one does not necessarily agree with.

• Tolerance
• Mayflower Compact
• Puritans
• Habeas Corpus

Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment

• Habeas Corpus
• Puritans
• Legislature
• House of Burgesses

An estate on which cash crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by slave labor.

• Plantation
• Freedom of the Press
• Tolerance
• House of Burgesses