"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 | disagreement with or opposition to an opinion | show 🗑
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| persecute | to treat harshly | show 🗑
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| Puritans | show | The Puritans wanted to change the Anglican Church because they did not believe what the church taught them.
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| Separatists | Protestants who, during the 1600s, wante to leave the Anglican Church in order to found their own church. | show 🗑
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| show | Separatists who journeyed to the colonies during the 1600s for religious purposes. | Pilgrims came to America to start their own church.
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| Mayflower Compact | show | A list of laws that the Plymouth Colony would obey was called the Mayflower Compact.
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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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| patroon | show | 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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| show | colony run by individuals or group to whom land was granted | A proprietary colony was ruled by a person or a group of people who were given the land.
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| show | person opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes | 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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| show | farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or crops | 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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| charter | a document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area | show 🗑
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