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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 seattled. |
| common | A grassy area shared by the town's people,and used for grazing sheep,catttle,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 they buy and make. |
| industry | All the businesses that make one kind of product or offer one kind of service. |
| naval stores | Products to build 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 force to travel across the Atlantc 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. |
| constitution | A written plan of government. |
| debtor | A person who was put in prison for owing money. |
| backcountry | The land beyond,or in back of," the area settled by Europeans. |
| planter | A plantation owner. |
| overseer | A hire 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 or sell for someone else. |
