Social Studies
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- assembly
- a gathering or meeting to consider problems and pass laws
- royal colony
- a colony ruled directly by a king or queen, often through a royal governor
- plantation
- a large farm, usally one where a cash crop is raised.
- burgesses
- a representative to colonial Virginia's House of Burgesses
- enslaved
- to be held captive by another person and forced to work for them
- House of Burgesses
- The first group of local representatives in Virginia established in 1619
- export
- to ship goods from one country to an another area of the world.
- veto
- the right of executive branch of government to refuse to sign a bill into law
- malaria
- a blood disease passed to humans by the bite of mosquitos
- cash crop
- a plant that farmers grow to sell at a market
- money
- something used as an exchange for buying and selling money includes paper cash,checks,and coins,of gold, copper other metal.
- self-government
- freedom of people to control their own community or country
- General Assembly
- the colonial legislature of Virginia established in 1619
- indentured servant
- a person bound by contract to work without pay for a period of time