Social Studies Vocab
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- Pilgrams
- English settlers seeking religous freedom
- toluration
- the acceptence of different belifs
- Toluration act
- a gurantee that all Christians had the right to worship as the please
- Massachusetts Bay Company
- company formed 1629 by Puritans to start a new colony in America
- Thanksgiving
- a celebration of a boutiful harvest shaved by the Pilgrams and Native Americans
- Mayflower Compact
- an agreement made by Pilgrams leaders that ensured self goverment
- Great Migration
- the movement of English settlers to the American Colonys 1630-1640
- proprietor
- individual who received legal and exclusive right to a colony
- commonwealth
- a self govering pocitial unit
- Puritans
- member of Anglican Church who wanted to "Purify"
- indigo
- a plant that produce blue dye
- patroon
- landowner in the Dutch colonies who received rent, taxes, and labor from tenant farmers
- constitution
- a document presenting plan of goverment
- Seprtist
- those who left the Anglican Church
- navel stores
- products of pine forests used in wooden shipbuilding and maintence
- Quakers
- protestant reformer who belived in religious tolorance also known as the Sociaty of Friends
- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
- the first American constitution or plan of goverment
- proprietor colony
- a colony given to an individual by the king of England