Colonial Settlement Vocabulary

Investors buy shares in a company for a share in their profits

• Indentured Servant

• Charter

• Joint Stock Company

• Backcountry

A new settlement controlled by a parent country

• Mercantilism

• Salutary Neglect

• Joint Stock Company

• Colony

People who wanted to reform the Anglican Church

• Separatists

• Puritans

• Indentured Servant

• Charter

Protestants who wanted to break away from the Anglican Church to found their own churches.

• Indentured Servants

• Joint Stock Company

• Puritans

• Separatists

Gives the owner the right to organize settlements in an area.

• Indentured Servant

• Burgesses

• Salutary Neglect

• Charter

Far western edges of colonies that was "back" of the real country along the coast.

• Joint Stock Company

• Burgesses

• Backcountry

• Mercantilism

Elected representatives to an assembly

• Joint Stock Company

• Burgesses

• Separatists

• Puritans

A laborer who agrees to work with no pay for a period of time in exchange for passage to America.

• Indentured Servant

• Colony

• Burgesses

• Puritans

Relaxed enforcement on trade laws imposed on colonies

• Burgesses

• Joint Stock Company

• Charter

• Salutary Neglect

Economy where mother country establishes colonies as a source of raw materials and markets.

• Joint Stock Company

• Salutary Neglect

• Mercantilism

• Colony