Chapter 4 - Colonial America Vocabulary

a document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony

• constitution

• burgess

• charter

• estate

a 50 acre grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way

• headright

• burgess

• debtor

• patroon

an elected representative to an assembly

• pacifist

• patroon

• debtor

• burgess

to disagree with or oppose an opinion

• persecute

• tolerance

• headright

• dissent

the ability to accept or put up with different views or behaviors

• tolerance

• dissent

• persecute

• patroon

a landowner in the Dutch colonies who ruled over large areas of land

• patroon

• pacifist

• debtor

• burgess

of or relating to national, tribal, racial, religious, language, or cultural background

• estate

• enforce

• indentured servant

• ethnic

a person who is opposed to the use of violence

• debtor

• indentured servant

• pacifist

• patroon

a laborer who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America

• debtor

• patroon

• joint-stock company

• indentured servant

a large area of land that has one owner

• headright

• joint-stock company

• estate

• dominate