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| Patriot | colonists of the 13 colonies who rebelled against the British government |
| Loyalists | American colonists who stayed loyal to the British government |
| Mercantilism | trade restrictions imposed on the colonies in which all raw goods would go to England and manufactured. They would be sold back to the colonies - it is a way to balance the economy of the Mother country. |
| Immigrants | people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country |
| triangular trade | a system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa |
| Pilgrims | a Separatist that left England in the early 1600s to escape persecution from the Church of England. |
| Puritans | a Protestant that wanted to purify or bring the Anglican Church (Church of England) back to its true purpose. |
| Quakers | a religious group that was also known as the Society of Friends. They believed in the equality of all men and nonviolence. |
| Jamestown | the first permanent English settlement in North America |
| Mayflower Compact | legal document that was signed by 41 male Pilgrims that agreed to create fair laws to protect the general good of the colony. |
| First Great Awakening | religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1700s |
| Slavery | the act of forcing someone else to do work for no pay |
| Plantation | large farm in the south that farms for profit; cash crops |
| Colony | an area of land that is under the cotrol of a country, but not fully part of the country |
| Parliament | the main governing body of the British government |
| Revolution | the overthrow of a government to establish a new system |
| Sons of Liberty | a group of patriots organized by Samuel Adams to protest the actions of the British government |
| Redcoat | a nickname for the British soldiers taken from their bright red uniforms; also called lobster backs |
| Stamp Act | a tax placed on the American colonies that taxed all legal documents and other paper products. |
| Continental Army | the official army of the American colonists that was established by the Continental Congress. |
