crops grown to be sold

a contract given to someone to establish a colony

A principle, or policy taught or advocated, for a religion.

state-sponsored settlement of people to new territories

Created to or used in the buying and selling of goods and services; concerned with money; relating to or based on the amount of profit that something earns.

to make use of by apply something such as authority or rights due to ownership

traveling to new territories for the purpose of discovery

Migration to a new location

a group of people chosen to make laws

a landform where a part of a body of water is protected and deep enough for ships to dock

too many people in one place for the resources available

The financial gain made in a transaction

a financial gain, especially the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something.

Conditions that draw people to another location (pull factors) or cause people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region (push factors)

Protection or safety

the right to choose and practice a religion (or

religious freedom

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the mistreatment of an individual or group because of their religious beliefs

Idea that people of different religions should live in peace together

political system where policies are created by representatives selected by the people

self-governments, assemblies, legislatures

incoming money

government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony.

A group of people that are (wrongfully) owned by someone else.

an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits

the action of buying and selling goods and services.

suffrage

period of time when trade regulations for the colonies were laxly enforced and imperial supervision of internal colonial affairs was loose as long as the colonies remained loyal to the British government and contributed to the economic profitability of Britain.

Colonies that included: Connecticut Colony, Delaware Colony, Georgia Colony, Maryland Colony, Massachusetts (included Maine), New Jersey Colony, New York Colony, New, Hampshire Colony, North Carolina Colony, Pennsylvania Colony, Rhode Island Colony, South Carolina Colony, Virginia Colony

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1620

American colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views (1591-1643)

Christian followers of the Roman Catholic Church

A system where slaves were transported to the Americas. Sugar, tobacco, and cotton were exported to Europe. Slaves were then brought to the Caribbean to be sold to plantation owners.

By 1750 there were a string of colonies along the eastern coast of North America that were owned by Britain. Because parliament had a hard time enforcing colonial trade, manufacturing laws, and politics, the colonies were already developing independent from Britain.

voyages to new territories by European navigators in the 15th century,

At the end of the French and Indian War, they lost Canada and land east of the Mississippi, to the British, and New Orleans and land west of Mississippi River to Spain

Set up a unified government for the towns of the Connecticut area (Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield). First constitution written in America.

Lost the American Revolution to the Americans in 1783

Founded in 1634 by Lord Baltimore, founded to be a place for persecuted Catholics to find refuge, a safe haven, act of toleration

1629 - King Charles gave the Puritans a right to settle and govern a colony in the Massachusetts Bay area. The colony established political freedom and a representative government.

1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.

Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island...Settled by Pilgrims in 1620 and Puritans in the 1630s to escape religious persecution in England.

the lawmaking body of British government

Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.

A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

Term prevalent in seventeenth-century England and America referring to certain historically established rights, beginning with the rights of the Magna Carta, that all English subjects were understood to have. These included the right not to be kept in prison without a trial, the right to trial by jury, security in one's home from unlawful entry, and no taxation without consent, among others.

He founded Rhode Island for separation of Church and State. He believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs.

A Puritan minister who led about 100 settlers out of Massachusetts Bay to Connecticut because he believed that the governor and other officials had too much power. He wanted to set up a colony in Connecticut with strict limits on government.

Community members could voice their opinions on local issues

Trading of slaves from Africa to the Americas

The first representative assembly in the new world. Created due to distance between Great Britain and the colonies in 1619

from Senegambia to Angola, the slave markets here were the major sources for slaves

A Quaker that founded Pennsylvania to establish a place where his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution.