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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| charter | A document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony |
| Investigate | To try to discover facts and other information about something. |
| Joint stock copany | A company in which investors buy stock in return for a share its future profits. |
| Headright | A 50 acre grant of land give to colonial settlers who paid their own way. |
| Burgess | Elected representative to and assembly. |
| Expand | to increase in size or number. |
| Dissent | To disagree with or oppose and opinion |
| Persecute | To mistreat a person of group on the basis of their beliefs. |
| Tolerance | The ability to accept or put up with different views or behaviors |
| Enforce | To apply a rule or law |
| Policy | A statement of ideals or plan of action |
| Patroon | Landowner in the dutch colonies who ruled over large ares of land. |
| Ethnic | Of or relating to national tribal racial religious language or cultural background. |
| Pacifists | people opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes |
| Function | To be in action to operate |
| Indentured servant | Laborer who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange to for passage to America |
| Estate | Large area of land that has one owner |
| Dominate | To control |
| Constitution | A list of fundamental laws to support a government |
| Debtor | Person or country that owes money. |
| Indigo | The indigoera plant often called just indigo was used to make indigo dye. |