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Colonial America
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| charter | A written grant detailing rights and privileges to settle the colonies of America |
| joint-stock company | Wealthy individual merchants or investors/businesses who combined funds for a venture or business project like establishing a colony for trading purposes. |
| indentured servant | One who gave up several years of freedom to have their travel fees paid by the company or person to later obtain freedom in the new world. |
| burgesses | Representatives for colonial governments. |
| dissenter | People who disagreed with the beliefs of the Church of England and could be imprisoned or fined as a punishment. |
| self-governance | Control of a colony based on the democratic principle of common consent. |
| separatist | People who left the Church of England and created their own congregations outside of the church as the Pilgrims did in the American colonies. |
| alliance | Agreements with others who share a common goal. |
| confederacy | A loose alliance or agreement between groups to protect and support one another in a time of crises. |
| proprietor | A person responsible for the colony. |
| Royal colony | A colony with a governor and council appointed by the king himself. |
| subsistence farming | When farmers produce about enough food to provide for their family with only a little, if any, left over to sell or trade. Commonly practiced in the Northern colonies. |
| cash crop | Crops grown for resale rather than for use by the farmers themselves. (tobacco, rice, indigo for example.) |
| overseer | A supervisor, often over slaves in the colonies. |
| commodity | A trade good |
| tolerence | The acceptance of others and other beliefs. |
| enlightenment | The intellectual movement that emphasized the use of reason to examine previously accepted beliefs. |
| John Locke | A 17th century English philosopher that influenced the enlightenment movement and he supported that humans are free and equal with natural rights. |
| natural rights | Rights that humans are born with such as life or liberty that cannot be taken away. |
| parliament | The legislative body of England, and later Great Britain. |
| salutary neglect | The policy of the British government to not strictly enforce its colonial policies. |
| Treaty of Paris | The peace agreement that ended the French and Indian War. |
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