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| colonization | the process of starting a colony or colonies by sending settlers to a new place, usually a distant one |
| encomienda | large tracts of land owned by wealthy Spanish settlers in North America Some included Indian villages and their inhabitants. |
| mission | a place, usually including a church and a school, that is established for religious and humanitarian purposes |
| tax | money, or occasionally property, that people pay to their government |
| fort | a place of defense; a permanent army post |
| investor | a person who provides money for a business, usually to gain income or make a profit |
| profit | the amount of money made by a business after all the expenses have been met |
| Puritan | a member of a Protestant group in England and the American colonies. |
| Separatist | a person belonging to a Protestant church that had left the Church of England |
| Pilgrim | one of the English Puritans who founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620 |
| Quaker | a religious group, also called the Religious Society of Friends, founded in 1647 |
| pacifism | opposition to war and violence; the belief that war is the wrong way to solve difference between nations |
