1. Colonial Regions: New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies
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Colonial Regions: New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies

2. Cash Crop
A cash crop is a crop grown in large quantities to be sold for a profit.

3. Assembly
An assembly is an elected group that make laws on behalf of the people.

4. Democratic
In a democratic government the power rests with the people.

5. Puritans
The Puritans ,a Separatists group that broke away from the Church of England, valued a “pure” relationship with God.

6. Great Migration
The Great Migration is the name given to the choice and action made by many Puritan families to leave England and come to America.

7. Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact, a document including a set of rules agreed to by all the Pilgrims, determined how the Plymouth colony would be governed.

8. Slave Trade
The business of capturing, transporting and selling people as slaves is known as the Slave Trade.

9. Quakers
The Quakers in their religious doctrine practiced the beliefs of equality for all, brotherly love, nonviolence, and living a simple life style.

10. House of Burgesses The House of Burgesses was the first representative
assembly in the American
Colonies.

11. Constitution A constitution is a document that sets the
basic rules for a government.