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settlers discussed and voted on many issues
Town meeting
owners of large estates
patroons
religious freedom for all Christians
Act of toleration
trade product sent to markets outside a country
export
Publishing something that may unjustly damage a person's reputation.
Libel
the holy day of rest very seriously
sabbath
the king gave land to one or more people in return for a yearly payment
Proprietary colony
A plant to make a valuable blue dye
Indigo
trade product brought into a country
import
Top of society wealthy planters, merchants, ministers and successful and some tradespeople.
Gentry
a group of English settlers who are protestants
Puritans
colony under the direct control of the English crown
Royal colony
the belief that one race is superior to another
racism
A nickname for New England merchants who dominated colonial trade
Yankee
Farmers who worked their own land, skilled craft workers and some tradespeople.
Middle Class
elected representatives assembly in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
General Court
Protestant Reformers who were despised in England
quakers
treated enslaved Africans not as humans but as property
slave code
written freedoms that a government promises to protect
bill of rights
the lowest class hired farmhands slave
Indenture servants
willingness to let others practice their own religious beliefs
religious tolerance
crops that are sold for money at the market
Cash Crops
people who owed money and couldn't pay it
Debtors
in 1688 movement that brought William and Mary to the throne of England
Glorious Revolution
Huge religious movement 1730-1740
Great Awakening