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charter | An official paper in which certain rights are given by a government to a person,group,or business. |
dissent | Disagreement. |
expel | To force to leave. |
consent | Agreement. |
sedition | Speaking in ways that cause other people to work against a government. |
frontier | The lands beyond the areas already settle. |
common | A grassy area shared by the town's people,and used for grazing sheep,cattle,and other livestock. |
town meeting | An assembly of people in a New England town that made laws and elected leaders. |
free-market | An economic system where people are free to choose the goods and services that buy and make. |
industry | All the business that make one kind of product or offer one kind of service. |
naval stores | Products used to build ships. |
export | A product that leaves a country. |
import | A product brought into a country. |
triangular trade route | Shipping routes that connected England,the English colonies,and Africa. |
Middle Passage | The journey millions of enslaved Africans were forced to travel across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the West Indies. |
refuge | A safe place. |
propietor | An owner. |
trial by jury | The right of a person to be tried by a jury,or a group,of citizens to decide if the person is guilty or innocent of commitiing a crime. |
justice | A judge. |
diversity | Differences among people. |
immigrant | A person who comes into a country to make a make a new life. |
Great Awakening | A religious movement that began in the Middle Colonies that changed the way many people practiced their religion. |
religious toleration | Acceptance of religious differences. |
militia | A volunteer army. |
prosperity | Economic success. |
artisan | A craftworker. |
aprentice | A person who lived and worked with an artisan's family for several years,learning a skill in order to earn a living. |
planter | A plantation owner. |
overseer | A higer person who watched enslaved people as they worked. |
indigo | A plant from which a blue dye can be produced. |
interdependence | Groups of people who rely on each other. |
broker | A person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else. |