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Chapter 3 vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Charter | a document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony |
Joint-stock company | a company in which investors buy stock in return for a share of the company's future profits |
Investigate | -to try to discover facts and other information about something |
Expand | to increase in size or number |
Burgess | elected representative to an assembly |
Headright | grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way |
dissent | to disagree with or oppose an opinion |
persecute | to mistreat people or groups on the basis of their beliefs |
enforce | to apply a rule or law |
policy | a statement of ideals or plan of action |
tolerance | the ability to accept or put up with different views or behaviors |
patroon | landowner in the Dutch colonies who ruled over large areas of land |
ethnic | of or relating to national, tribal, racial, religious, language, or cultural background |
pacifist | people opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes |
function | to be in action; to operate |