Karteikarten
Chapter 3 Vocab
Karten in diesem Stapel (13)
- 1Charterdocument granting the recipient the right to settle a colony
- 2Joint-Stock Companybusiness in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profits
- 3Head-right50-acre grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way
- 4BurgessElected representative to an assembly
- 5House of BurgessesFirst democratically-elected (representative) legislative body in the British American colonies
- 6DissentDifference of opinion
- 7PersecuteSubject someone to hostility/ill-treatment based on their character and traits
- 8ToleranceTo tolerate something and allow something to occur without inference
- 9PatroonLandowner in Dutch colonies who ruled over large areas of land
- 10PacifistAgainst solving disputes with violence and physical altercations in general
- 11Indentured servantLabourer who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America
- 12ConstitutionDetailed written plan for a government; a list of basic laws that support a government
- 13DebtorPerson or country that owes money
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