Mission 3
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Mission 3
Life in the Colonies1609-1732
Separatist
• A Puritan who broke away from the Anglican Church (p. 66)
Pilgrim
• A Separatist who journeyed to the American colonies in the 1600s for religious freedom. (p. 67)
pacifism
• Opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes. (p. 75)
Cash Crop
• A crop grown primarily for profit (p. 85)
Plantation
• A large, commercial, agricultural estate (p. 85)
Indentured servant
• An individual who contracts to work for a colonist for a specified number of years in exchange for transportation to the colonies, food, clothing, and shelter. (p. 86)
Gentry
• Wealthy landowners in the South, also called the planter elite (p. 86)
Subsistence farming
• Farming only enough food to feed one’s family (p. 87)
Middle Passage
• The difficult journey slave endured in crossing the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. (p. 89)
Slave code
• A set of laws that formally regulated slavery and defined the relationship between enslaved Africans and free people. (p. 90)
Town meeting
• A gathering of free men in a New England town to elect leaders which developed into the local town government. (p. 94)
selectmen
• Men chosen to manage a town’s affairs (p. 94)
Bill of exchange
• Credit slip given by English merchants to planters in exchange for sugar or other goods. (p. 95)
Triangular trade
• A three-way trade route that exchanged goods between the American colonies and two other trading partners (Africa, Europe, and West Indies) (p. 95)
Entrepreneur
• One who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise (p. 97)
capitalist
• Person who invests wealth, particularly money, in a business (p. 97)
mercantilism
• The theory that a state’s power depends on its wealth (p. 98)
Natural rights
• Fundamental rights all people are born possessing, including the right to life, liberty, and property. (p. 102)
Enlightenment
• Movement during the 1700s that promoted science, knowledge, and reason. (p. 108)
Great Awakening
• Movement during the 1700s that stressed dependence on God. (p. 108)