Did not want to separate from the church but wanted to purify it.
Puritans
Crops that are sold for money at market.
Cash Crops
People that owe money to other people.
Debtors
the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
Mercantilism
Publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a person's reputation.
Libel
legislature of the Plymouth colony from 1620 to 1692. The body also sat in judgment of judicial appeals cases.
General Court
Protestant Reformers who were despised in England.
Quakres
Men and women got mad and raided a Native American village and then went to Jamestown and burned it.
Bacon's Rebellion
Goods sent outside of the country to other markets.
Export
Private schools girls.
Dame Schools
Willingness to let others practice their religion freely.
Religious Tolerance
Colony under the direct control of the English crown.
Royal Colony
Divided the middle colonies and the southern colonies.
Mason-Dixion-Line
Goods brought into the country
Import
Private Teachers
Tutors
Very holy day.
Sabbath
The king gave land to one or more people in return for a yearly payment.
Proprietary Colony
People treated Native Americans as property not human.
Slave Codes
The three legs of the route formed triangle.
Triangular trade
Reason and scientific methods could be applied.
Enlightenments
settlers discussed and voted on many issues.
Town Meetings
Owners of large estates
Patroons
A valuable dye
Indigo
Protected the rights of individuals.
English Bills of Rights
Huge religious movement of the 1730's-1740's
Great Awakening