1. Social Science Vocabulary
Grade 7 List 7.2
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2. Apprentice
Person who learns a trade from a master craftsman

3. Act of Toleration
1649 Maryland law which granted religious freedom to all Christians, including Catholics

4. Bacon’s Rebellion
1676 raid led by Nathaniel Bacon against Native Americans and the governor of colonial Virginia

5. Cash crop
Crops that are grown to sell for profit

6. debtor
Person who owes money

7. export
Good traded OUT of a country

8. General Court
Representative legislature of colonial Massachusetts

9. House of Burgesses
Representative legislature of colonial Virginia

10. import
Goods brought from another country

11. Indentured servant
Person who agreed to work for 4-7 years in exchange for their trip to the colonies being paid for

12. Legislature
Group of people who make the laws for an area (like our Congress)

13. Mason-Dixon Line
Boundary that divided the Middle and Southern Colonies

14. Mayflower
Boat that the Pilgrims came to the Americans on

15. Mayflower Compact
1620 agreement that told how the Pilgrims would rule their settlement. It was signed before they landed at Plymouth

16. mercantilism
Idea that a country became strong by increasing trade with its colonies and building up its gold passage

17. Middle passage
Slave trip from Africa to the colonies

18. Navigation Acts
Series of 1650’s acts by parliament designed to control trade between England and their colonies

19. Parliament
Representative legislature or assembly (Law-making body) of England

20. Pennsylvania Dutch
German Settlers of Pennsylvania that were known as great craftspeople

21. persecution
Mistreatment of a group of people because of their beliefs or other characteristics

22. Pilgrims
Settlers of Massachusetts who came to the Americas for religious freedom

23. plantation
Large Estates farmed by slaves in the southern Colonies

24. Puritans
Group of English Protestants who dominated early colonial Massachusetts

25. Quakers
Religious group associated with Pennsylvania that was against war and who believed all people were equal in God’s eyes

26. racism
Belief that one race is superior to another

27. Raw materials
Materials such as lumber that occur naturally in the environment

28. Religious freedom
The ability to practice your religion

29. Representative government
When voters elect people to govern themselves

30. Slave codes
Laws designed to keep slaves under control. For example, slaves were no allowed to read or write.

31. slavery
When people are forced to do work for another person or group

32. Subsistence farming
Growing just enough to feed your family. Usually due to poor soil or poor climate

33. tolerance
Willingness to put up with other people’s beliefs and ideas.

34. Triangular trade
Colonial trade route between colonial New England, Africa and West Indies.

35. Yankee traders
Merchants from New England who dominated colonial trade