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| charter | legal document giving certain rights to a person or company |
| representative government | voters elect representatives to make laws for them |
| Mayflower Compact | document pilgrims wrote that agreed upon laws for their colony |
| great migration | term for large number of people who traveled from England to Massachusetts Bay Colony to live |
| Mason-Dixon Line | Survey that divided the Middle Colonies from the Southern Colonies at the Pennsylvania/Maryland border |
| import | to bring a good or product into a country to sell |
| export | to take a good or product out of a country to sell |
| legislature | a group of people who have power to make laws |
| gentry | the highest social class in the colony made up of wealthy settlers |
| apprentice | a worker who worked without pay to learn a trade or craft |
| public schools | schools supported by tax money, rich and poor children could attend |
