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| colonization | system of settling new lands that remain under the government of their native land |
| Middle Passage | the brutal middle portion of the triangular trade that brought enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas |
| Mayflower Compact | document that set up a government for the Plymouth colony, signed by Pilgrims on the Mayflower, it set guidelines for self-government |
| direct democracy | a form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives |
| immigrants | people who have left the country they were born in to live in another country |
| cavaliers | English nobility who received large land grants in eastern Virginia from the King of England |
| indentured servants | poor immigrants who agreed to work on tobacco plantations for a period of time to pay for passage to the New World |
| VA House of Burgesses | the first elected assembly in the New World; has operated continuously and is known today as the General Assembly of Virginia |
| subsistence farming | growing just enough crops for personal use, not for sale |
| free enterprise | the freedom of individuals to start and operate private businesses in hopes of making a profit |
| dissenter | a person who does not agree with the beliefs of his or her leaders |
| skilled artisan | a manual worker who makes clothes, furniture, jewelry, tools or household items |
| entrepreneur | business owner |
| Great Awakening | A religious movement that swept both Europe and the colonies during the mid-1700s, which led to rapid growth of evangelical religious (Methodist and Baptist) and challenged the established religious and governmental orders. *It laid one of the social foundations for the American Revolution. |
| Puritans | group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| covenant community | a settlement based on a written set of rules that all members agree to obey. Can be based on religion, for example: The Mayflower Compact in the Plymouth colony |
| VA Company of London | the name of the company that paid for the trip, settlement and materials needed to start Jamestown |
| tolerance | respect and acceptance of the differing views, practices, and characteristics of others |
