| A | B |
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| House of Burgesses | the first legislature set up in North America and located in the Virginia Colony |
| Separatists | left the church of england to worship in their own way |
| Puritans | religous group that did not want to split from the Church of England but to reform it |
| proprietary colony | colony that is created by land grants from the monarch and issued to individual families |
| royal colony | colony controlled directly by the king |
| Quakers | believed that all people had ‘inner light” with God and that we are all equal in His eyes |
| debtors | people that owed money |
| mission | places set up to convert Natives |
| parliament | the 2 house legislature in England that included the House of Commons and the House of Lords |
| habeas corpus | legal practice where you cannot be imprisoned without being charged |
| libel | (published statements that damaged a person’s reputation |
| mercantilsm | theory that thecolonies existed to serve the economic needs of the parent county |
| slave codes | rules that said that enslaved could not meet in large numbers, own weapons, or leave plantations without permission |
| natural rights | (rights that belong to every human being at birth |
| divine right | monarchs got authority to rule entirely from God |
