The Colonies Vocab

A business formed by a group of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses.

• Joint-Stock Company
• Headright System
• General Court
• Fundamental Orders

A colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years.

• Slave
• Indentured Servant
• Puritans
• Proprietors

A system in Virginia where a colonists who paid their own way to travel to a colony from Europe received 50 acres of land.

• Joint-Stock Company
• General Court
• Headright System
• Fundamental Orders

An owner of a business or property

• Joint-Stock Company

• Proprietor

• Puritans

• Dissenter

Laws passed in the colonies to control slaves

• General Court

• Fundamental Orders

• Slave Codes

• Dissenter

Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England

• Catholics

• Methodists

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

A method of making rules in a community that involves selecting a leader to speak on the behalf of your part of the community.

• Representative Government
• General Court
• Fundamental Orders
• Socialism

A belief that that allowed many different religions worshiped in a community.

• Representative Government

• Religious Tolerance

• Fundamental Orders

• Dissenter

A member of a Puritan group that left England in the early 1600s to setle in America.

• Catholics

• Quakers

• Pilgrims

• Puritans

A document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a community and setting rules for self-government.

• Fundamental Orders

• General Court

• Mayflower Compact

• Headright System