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Chapter 3
History - Colonial America
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| charter | a document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area |
| joint-stock company | a company which investors buy stock in the company in return for a share of its future profits |
| headright | a 50-acre grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way |
| burgess | elected representative to an assembly |
| expand | to increase in size or scope |
| dissent | disagreement with or opposition to an opinion |
| Puritan | Protestants who, during the 1600s, wanted to reform the Anglican Church |
| Separatist | Protestants who, during the 1600s, wanted to leave the Anglican Church in order to found their own churches |
| Pilgrim | Separatist who journeyed to the colonies during the 1600s |
| Mayflower Compact | a formal document, written in 1620, that provided law and order to the Plymouth colony |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | the first written plan for a government in America |
| policy | plan of action |
| patroon | landowner in the Dutch colonies who ruled like a king over large areas of land |
| proprietary colony | colony run by individuals or groups to whom land was granted |
| pacifist | person opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes |
| ethnic | pertaining to a group sharing a common culture |
| function | operate |
| indentured servant | laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America |
| constitution | a list of fundamental laws to support a government |
| debtor | person or country that owes money |
| tenant farmer | farmer who works land owned by others and pays rent either in cash or crops |
| mission | religious settlement |
| estate | property, land |
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