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| Name for a lawmaking body. | legislature |
| Name for a written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governments. | charter |
| What effect did indentured servitude have on the colonies? | It allowed the poor to get here. |
| What did the colonist do at the First Continental Congres? | Demanded that King George III restore their rights. |
| Name a result of the Magna Carta. | Gave protection of landowners' rights. |
| What was the colonists response to the Stamp Act? | Boycotting |
| Name for an agreement among the people in a society. | Social contract |
| Many settlers came to America for religous reasons, what were they? | They wanted religous freedom. |
| What were the Southern Colonies known for? | fertile land |
| What played an important role in the New England economy? | shipbuilding |
| What was the Mayflower Compact? | a written plan for government |
| What group wanted to reform the Anglican Church? | Puritans |
| Another name for the coercive Acts, which restricted the colonist civil rights is? | Intolerable Acts |
| Name of an area of flat, low plains near the seacoast of Virginia and North Carolina. | Tidewater |
| Name of the theory that a country's power depends on its wealth. | mercantilism |
| Name of the system that rests on previous court decisions. | Common Law |
| It provided investors partial ownership and a share in future profits. | Joint-stock company |
| Name of a colony owned and controlled by a private owner. | Proprietary colony |
| Name for a king or queen. | monarch |
| Name of a colony owned and ruled directly by a king. | Royal colony |
| Name the theory of equality. | Egalitarianism |
| Name for a large southern estate. | plantation |
| Name for representatives. | Delegates |
| Name for an agreement, or contract, among a group of people. | Compact |
| Name of a group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere. | colony |
