Social Studies Chapter 5 Vocabulary

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Charter Official document giving a person or group permission to do something.
Cash Crop Crop grown to be sold for profit.
Indentured Servant Person who agreed to work for someone for a certain amount of time in exchange for the cost of the voyage to North America.
House of Burgesses Law-making assembly in colonial Virginia.
Northwest Passage Water route that explorers hoped would flow through North America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Pilgrim A person who travels to a new place for religious reasons.
Separatists Group of people from England who wanted to separate themselves from the Church of England.