"DMS" The American Journey Ch. 3
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| joint-stock-company | show | For example, I might give a company some money (so they can start their company). This makes me an "investor". When and if the company starts to make money, I'll get my money back and more too.
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| burgesses | show | People who were elected to determine the laws (legislation) of a colony.
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| dissent | show | Someone here at school might dissent with the rule that gum cannot be chewed. That means they disagree with the rule.
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| persecute | show | A lot of Europeans came to America because they were being persecuted, others were mean to them, because of the religious beliefs.
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| show | Protestants who, during the 1600s, wanted to reform the Anglican Church | The Puritans wanted to change the Anglican Church because they did not believe what the church taught them.
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| Separatists | show | The Separatists did not want to change the church like the Puritans, they just wanted to leave the church and start their own.
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| Pilgrims | Separatists who journeyed to the colonies during the 1600s for religious purposes. | show 🗑
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| Mayflower Compact | a formal document, writen in 1620, that provided law and order to the Plymouth colony. | show 🗑
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| show | patience with others - The Puritans criticized or persecuted people who held other religious views.They showed no toleration. | Some colonies showed no toleration (patience) with other people's ideas about religion. Some would not even let other religions be a part of their colony.
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| show | landowner in the Dutch colonies who rules like a king over large areas of land | A person given a lot of land and that person rules over all of the people who work on his land.
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| proprietary colony | colony run by individuals or group to whom land was granted | show 🗑
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| pacifist | show | The Quakers were pacifists because they believed everyone was equal and no problems should be settled with fighting or war.
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| indentured servant | show | Often a person would because an indentured servant for about 7 years. If someone would pay for his trip to America, he would work for free for 7 years.
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| show | a list of fundamental laws to support a government | a list of the basic rules of a colony/country/etc.
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| show | person or country that owes money | If you borrow money from your parents and have not paid them back, you are a debtor.
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| tenant farmer | show | Tenant farmers did not have enough money to buy their own land, so they used someone else's land to grow food. They paid the land owner money or gave him part of the crop as a payment.
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| show | religious settlement | Many of the early towns in California were started as missions built by missionaries (people teaching religion).
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| show | a document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area | King James I would grant (give)charters to companies to organize settlements/colonies/towns in America.
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