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| cartographer | A mapmaker |
| capitalism | an economic system based on private ownership of property . |
| caulk | to make something (like a ship) tight against leakage |
| garrison | a group of soldiers housed in a particular location |
| Renaissance | a time in Europe in the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries that produced an intellectual rebirth that gave Europeans new vitality and energy |
| prefabricated | built in sections ready to be assembled |
| Lost Colony | the settlers sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to Carolina in 1587, who disappeared without a trace while their leader was back in England |
| joint-stock company | an early form of the modern corporation in which many people invested by buying stock |
| indentured servant | a person who agreed to work for another person, usually for seven years, in exchange for passage to America |
| headright system | a system for distributing land to colonists that began in Virginia. |
| Puritans | a radical group of Protestants, the dominant religious group in New England. |
| Pilgrims | a group of religious Separatists who came to Plymouth (Massachusetts) in 1620 aboard the Mayfl ower to found a colony |
| Quakers | a religious sect, also called the Society of Friends, that was formed in England in the 1640s and was prominent in the Pennsylvania colony |
