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A person who signs and is bound by indentures to work for another for a specified time especially in return for payment of travel expenses and maintenance.
Who was an indentured servant?
The colonist destroyed this many chest of tea during the Boston Tea Party.
What is 342?
A set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World and landing in the New England area.
Who was the Mayflower Compact?
A person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial (think about Columbus).
What is an apologist?
The primary reason the colonist were angered by the the Stamp Act.
What is it was an internal tax?
He served as governor of Plymouth Colony for more than 30 years, chronicling his experiences in a journal that became the authoritative account of the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony.
Who is William Bradford?
These two men were the primary editors of the Declaration of Independence.
Who were Admas and Franklin?
The number of colonist killed in the Boston Massacre.
What was 5?
Members of an Algonquian people of eastern Virginia, colonist settling in Jamestown feared them.
What is Powhatan?
This act was passed by Parliament on the same day the Stamp Act was repealed, stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever."
What was the Declaratory Act?
The commercial trading company, chartered by James I of England in 1606 with the objective of colonizing the eastern coast of North America.
What was the Virginia Company?
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.
What is mercantilism?