Unit 2 Vocabulary Words

Front

To send away as punishment

Back

Banish

Front

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

Back

Charter

Front

Variety, such as of ethnic or national groups

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Diversity

Front

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

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Indentured servant

Front

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

Back

Joint-stock company

Front

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

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Mayflower Compact

Front

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

Back

Middle Passage

Front

Name for England’s legislative body who makes the laws

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Parliament

Front

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

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Separatist

Front

Producing just enough crops to meet immediate family needs

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Subsistence farming