| A | B |
|---|
| commonwealth | self-governing political unit |
| charter | document from the king allowing settlement |
| plantations | large farms |
| indentured servants | people who agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for their passage |
| burgesses | representatives |
| royal colony | colony under the control of the king |
| Puritans | believed the Anglican Church needed to be purified |
| pilgrims | travelers with a religious goal |
| proprietor | owner |
| frontier | thinly settled area on the outer limits of the colony |
| joint-stock | each investor contributes financially and if the company succeeds they share the profit |
| Navigation Acts | laws to control colonial trade |
| slave codes | laws that denied enslaved Africans most of their rights |
| cash crops | food crops grown to be sold |
| bill of rights | document listing essential freedoms granted to citizens |
| apprentice | trainee |
| dame schools | taught women the alphabet, reading, Bible versus, and some math |
| Mayflower Compact | document created by the Puritan pilgrims that outlined self-government |
| Conestoga wagon | created by the Pennsylvania Dutch, hauled heavy loads easily |
| Middle Passage | route for slaves been West Africa and America |
| legislature | lawmaking body |
| meetinghouse | another name for a Purtian church |
| subsistence colony | grows only enough food to feed themselves |
| proprietary colony | awarded to one person or a group of people |
| mercantilism | to gain wealth, a country had to sell more goods than it bought |
