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Ch.3 SS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Charter | A document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony |
| joint-stock company | a company in which investers buy stock in return for a share of its profit |
| headright | a 50 acre of land given to colonial settelers who paid their own way |
| burgess | elected representative to an assembly |
| expaind | to increase in size or number |
| dissent | to disagree or oppose an opinion |
| persecute | to mistreat a person or group on the baisis of their belifs |
| tolerance | the ability to accept or put up with different views or behavure |
| enforce | to apply a rule or law |
| policy | a statement of ideas or plan of action |
| patroon | landowner in the dutch coloneies who ruled over large areas of land |
| ethnic | of or relating to national,trible,racial,religous,language,or cultrual backround. |
| pacifics | people opposed to the use of war or volence to sttle disputes |
| function | to be in action;to opperate |
| indentured servent | laborer who agrees to pay without pay for a certan period of timein excange for passage to amarica |
| estate | large area of land that has one owner |
| dominate | to control |
| construction | a list of fundimental laws to support a goverment |
| debor | person or country that owes money |
| indigo | the indigofera plant offten called just indigo, was used to make indigo dye |