social studies ch. 10
Terms
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- meeting house
- A building used for both public and religious meetings.
- separatist
- a person who wished to separate from the church of england
- primer
- A simple book for teaching reading to beginners
- majority rule
- Rule by more then half the population
- charter
- An official paper in which rights are given by a government to a person or company
- delegate
- a representative
- apprentice
- A person who works in return for instruction, room and board or payment
- puritan
- a person in the 1600's in england who thought in the english church should be made"pure'
- Mayflower Compact
- An agreement to obey the rules of Plymouth colony. It was signed abord the Mayflower.
- common land
- land available for use by all people of a village or town
- direct democracy
- a principle of American government that allows citizens to participate in making laws.
- pilgram
- a person who travels for religious reasons