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| CASH CROPS | such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton that are grown and sold for profit. |
| ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS | document that gave England a government based on a system of laws and freely elected parliament. |
| MERCANTILISM | an economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies. |
| PARLIAMENT | Britain's law-making assembly |
| GREAT AWAKWNING | a religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730's and 1740's. |
| SLAVE TRADE | the business of capturing, transporting, and selling people. |
| DEMOCRATIC | ruled by the people; the power to govern belongs to the people. |
| MAGNA CARTA | a document that limited a king’s power. |
| RIGHTS | powers or privileges granted to people either by an agreement among themselves or by law. |
| CHARTER | a written document granted land the authority to set up colonial governments. |
| MAYFLOWER COMPACT | an agreement that Pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the Americas |
