Unit 1 Vocab

Question 0

Astrolabe

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An instrument used by sailors to observe positions of stars

Question 1

Apprentice

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Assistant who is assigned to learn the trade of a skilled craftsman

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Burgesses

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Representatives who were elected to serve in an assembly ; made laws in Virginia

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Cash crop

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Crops grown by farmers to be sold for money rather than for personal use

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Charter

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The right to organize settlement in an area

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Colonization

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A group of people moving from their homeland to a new area

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Columbian exchange

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The exchange of plants animals and diseases and Technologies between the Americans and the rest of the world

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Culture

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It way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs

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Dissent

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To disagree

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Diverse

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Variety or difference

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English bill of rights

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Gave Rights to the English citizens and started the idea of individual rights

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Export

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To sell goods abroad

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Import

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To buy goods from foreign markets

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Indentured servant

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Laborer Who agreed to work in exchange for passage to America

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Joint stock colony

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Colony established as a business by investors with the Kings permission

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Line of demarcation

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Imaginary line drawn to divide the land claims of Spain and Portugal

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Magna Carta

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Written legal agreement signed 1215 that limited the English Kings power

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Mayflower compact

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1620 contract written by the pilgrims; first self government in America

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Mercantilism

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The theory that a state or nation’s power depends on its wealth

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Middle passage

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Voyage bringing enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the North America

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Navigation acts

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Series of laws passed by the England restricting colonial trade

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Northwest passage

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Non-consistent waterway in America connecting The Atlantic and Pacific

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Plantation

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Hey largest estate run by an owner or manager and farmed by laborers who live there

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Proprietary colony

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Colony owned and ruled by one person who was chosen by king

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Puritan

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Came to America for religious freedom; settled in Massachusetts Bay

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Renaissance

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Rebirth of art culture and intellect started in Italy

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Separatist

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People who want to separate from the church of England to practice a religion freely

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Smuggling

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Trading it illegally with other nations

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Subsistence farming

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Farming in which only enough food to feed one family is produced

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Triangular trade

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Trade the route from the colonist to Africa and then Europe