Unit 2 Vocabulary Words

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To send away as punishment

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A document granting the right to settle a colony in a given area

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Variety, such as of ethnic or national groups

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Laborer who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America

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A business in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profits

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Contract signed by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower agreeing to set up a government and follow certain laws

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The trip across the Atlantic from Africa to The Americas carrying enslaved Africans

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Name for England’s legislative body who makes the laws

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Person in the 16th & 17th centuries who wished to leave the Church of England

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Producing just enough crops to meet immediate family needs

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