Colonization Word List

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colony, charter, gentry, cash crop, representative government, House of Burgesses, pilgrim, Pilgrim, Mayflower Compact, toleration, town meeting, backcountry, debtor, plantation, slavery, tidewater
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  1. colony
    a group of organisms of the same type living together
  2. charter
    a document creating an institution and specifying its rights
  3. gentry
    the most powerful members of a society
  4. cash crop
    a cultivated plant that is grown to be sold for profit
  5. representative
    serving to typify
  6. government
    the system or form by which a community is ruled
  7. House of Burgesses
    the lower house of legislature in colonial Virginia
  8. pilgrim
    someone who journeys in foreign lands
  9. Pilgrim
    one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620
  10. Mayflower
    the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620
  11. compact
    closely and firmly united or packed together
  12. toleration
    the practice of accepting others' differing opinions
  13. town meeting
    a meeting of the inhabitants of a town
  14. back country
    a remote and undeveloped area
  15. debtor
    a person who owes a creditor
  16. plantation
    an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale
  17. slavery
    the state of being in forced servitude to another person
  18. tidewater
    low-lying coastal land drained by tidal streams
Created on Sat Oct 22 09:43:50 EDT 2011 (updated Sat Oct 22 09:55:38 EDT 2011)

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