assembly - a group of people gathered together, cash crop - a crop produced for its commercial value, Charter - A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company, Colonization - expansion of countries into other territories, Conquistador - Spanish conquero, harbor - a sheltered place along a shoreline where ships can anchor safely, immigrate - move into a foreign country or region as a permanent resident, Mercantilism - only trade with the Mother Country, persecution - mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs, Pilgrims - English Puritans who founded the Plymouth colony in 1620, Puritans - A religious group who left the Church of England, and settled in Massachusetts Bay, Quakers - Religious tolerant settlers in the Mid-Atlantic colonies, religious tolerance - Willingness to let others practice their own beliefs, self-government - a system of government in which people make their own laws, Social Contract - an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, subsistence farming - farming in which only enough food to feed one's family is produced, Trangular Trade - Trading of slaves from Africa to the Americas, salutary neglect - policy where parliamentary rules and laws were loosely or not enforced, convert - to change, Middle Passage - the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies,

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