Chapter 5 Vocabulary Words and Definitions
Charter – an official paper in which certain rights are given by a government to a person, group, or business
Dissent- A difference of opinion
Expel -To force to leave
Consent –Agreement
Sedition-Speech or behavior that causes other people to work against a government
Frontier-The land that lies beyond settled areas
Common-An open area where sheep and cattle graze, village green
Town Meeting -An assembly in the New England Colonies in which male landowners could take part in government
Public Office -A job a person is elected to
Free Market-An economic system where people are free to choose the goods and services they buy and produce
Middle Passage-The travel of enslaved Africans from Africa to the West Indies
Industry-All the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service
Naval store-A product that is used to build and repair a ship
Export-A product that leaves the country
Import-A product brought into the country
Triangular trade route - A shipping route that linked England, the English colonies in North America, and the west coast of Africa, forming an imaginary triangle in the Atlantic Ocean