Colonial America Vocabulary Practice

Separatists who journeyed to the colonies for a religious purpose and settled at Plymouth.

• Quakers

• Pilgrims

• Puritans

• Catholics

To undertake a monetary risk in order to make a profit:

• religious venture

• economic freedom

• economic venture

• religious freedom

People of the Protestant religion who wanted to reform the Anglican Church (Church of England):

• Burgesses

• Pilgrims

• Quakers

• Puritans

To treat someone harshly because of that person's beliefs or practices:

• toleration

• interference

• persecute

• dissent

Protestants who wanted to leave the Anglican Church (Church of England) in order to found their own churches

• Separatists

• Quakers

• Burgesses

• Pacifists

The acceptance of different beliefs:

• persecution

• toleration

• interference

• dissent

A colony fun by a governor and a council appointed by the King or Queen

• Proprietary Colony

• Charter Colony

• Royal Colony

• Indentured servant

To enter or take part in the concerns of others

• interference

• toleration

• persecute

• dissent

A colony run by individuals or groups to whom land is granted (given)

• Royal Colony

• Proprietary Colony

• Economic Venture

• Charter Colony

A person or country that owes money

• colony

• toleration

• debtor

• indentured servant