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1
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Northwest passage

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A waterway through and around North America

2
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Charter

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Legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

3
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Representative government

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Political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them

4
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House of burgesses

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Representative assembly in colonial Virginia

5
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Persecution

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Mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs

6
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Pilgrims

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In the 1600’s, English settlers who sought religious freedom in the Americas

7
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Mayflower compact

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A 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth colony

8
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Puritans

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Group of religious Protestants who settled the Massachusetts bay colony

9
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Religious tolerance

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Willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

10
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Town meetings

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Meeting in colonial New England where settlers discussed and voted on the issues

11
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Proprietary colony

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English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment

12
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Royal colony

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Colony under the direct control of the English crown

13
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Quakers

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Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people

14
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Cash crops

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Crop sold for money at market

15
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Missions

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Religious settlement run by catholic priest and Friars