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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| charter | a document granting the recipeint the right to settle a colony |
| joint-stocky company | a company in which investors buy stock 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 |
| investigate | to search for facts and other infomation about something |
| expand | to increase in size or number |
| dissent | to disagree with or oppose an opinion disagreement or opposition |
| persecute | rto mistreat people or groups on the basis of their beliefs |
| tolerance | the abillity to accept or put up with diffrent views or behaviors |
| enforce | to apply a rule or law to carry out by force |
| policy | a statement of ideals or plan of action |
| patroon | landowner in the dutch colonies who uled over large areas of land |
| pacifists | people opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes a person who is opposed to the use of violence |
| ethnic | of or relating to national , tribal , raicial , religious, language, or cultural background |
| function | to be in action to operate |
| indentured servant | laborer who agrees to work without pay for a certain peroid of time in exchange for passage to America |
| consituation | detailed written plan fo a goverment a list of basic laws that support a govement |
| debator | person or country that owes money |
| dominate | to control |
| indigo | type of plant/ crop , the indigofera plant, often called just indigo , was used to make indigo dye |