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6979853673Congregational ChurchSelf-governing Puritan congregations without the hierarchical establishment of the Anglican Church.0
6979853674headright systemThe right to acquire a certain amount of land granted to the person who finances the passage of laborer1
6979853681jeremiadA sermon or prophecy recounting wrongdoing, warning of doom, and calling for repentance.2
6979853683Middle PassageThat portion of a slave ship's journey to which slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas.3
6979883580disfranchiseTo take away the right to vote.4
6979889023civil warAny conflict between the citizens or inhabitants of the same country.5
6979891991tidewaterThe territory adjoining water affected by tides---that is, near the seacoast or coastal rivers.6
6979896565fertilityThe ability to mate and produce abundant young.7
6979898640menialFit for servants, humble or low8
6979899396militiaAn armed force of citizens called out only in emergencies.9
6979900831hierarchyA social group arranged in ranks or classes.10
6979902131corporationA group or institutional granted legal rights to carry on certain specified activities.11
6979904220lynchingThe illegal execution of an accused person by mob action, without due process of law.12
6979907707hinterlandAn inland region set back from a port, river, or seacoast13
6979911917social structureThe basic pattern of the distribution of status and wealth in a society.14
6979914814blue bloodOf noble or upper-class descent.15

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