Chapter 2 Vocab

A document that grants the right to form a colony.

• Policy

• Charter

• Joint-Stock Company

• Dissent

Investors buy stock in this in return for a share of its future profits.

• Charter

• Burgesses

• Patroon

• Joint-Stock Company

A 50-acre land grant given to colonial settlers who paid their own way.

• Headright

• Indentured Servant

• Patroon

• Persecute

Elected representatives to an assembly.

• Burgesses

• Headright

• Tolerate

• Debtor

To disagree or oppose an opinion.

• Pacifists

• Persecute

• Debtor

• Dissent

To mistreat a person or group on the basis of their beliefs.

• Persecute

• Patroon

• Dissent

• Pacifists

The ability to accept or put up with different views or behaviors.

• Dissent

• Headright

• Tolerate

• Persecute

A statement of ideals or plan of action.

• Patroon

• Policy

• Constitution

• Charter

Landowner in the Dutch colonies who ruled over large areas of land.

• Patroon

• Indentured Servant

• Policy

• Headright

People who refuse to use force or fight in wars.

• Patroon

• Persecute

• Indentured Servant

• Pacifists