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Colonial America
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| charter | a grant or guarantee of rights, powers, or privileges from an authority or agency of a state or country |
| joint-stock company | a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders. |
| headright | a legal grant of land given to settlers during the period of European colonization in the Americas |
| burgess | an inhabitant of a town or borough with full rights of citizenship. |
| dissent | to differ in opinion |
| persecuted | (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation or their political beliefs. |
| tolerance | the ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with. |
| patroons | a person given land and granted certain manorial privileges under the former Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey. |
| pacifist | person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable. |
| indentured servants | A person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a new country. |
| consitution | a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed |
| debtor | a person or institution that owes a sum of money. |
| investigating | carry out a systematic or formal inquiry to discover and examine the facts of (an incident, allegation, etc.) so as to establish the truth. |
| expand | become or make larger or more extensive. |
| enforced | caused by necessity or force; compulsory. |
| policy | a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government, party, business, or individual. |
| ethnic | . of or belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent. |
| functioned | work or operate in a proper or particular way. |
| estates | an extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization. |
| dominated | have a commanding influence on; exercise control ove |
| indigo | a tropical plant of the pea family, which was formerly widely cultivated as a source of dark blue dye. |
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