Colonization: Vocabulary

A person entitled to inherit the property or rank of another

• Burgess

• Heir

• Patroon

• Indenture

A person or country that owes money

• Patroon

• Dissentor

• Debtor

• Tolerance

A list of fundamental laws to support a government

• Charter

• Compact

• Legislature

• Constitution

A type of colony that is privately owned and funded

• Royal Colony

• Charter Colony

• Proprietary Colony

A type of colony run by a governor appointed by the king or queen

• Royal Colony

• Charter Colony

• Proprietary Colony

A type of colony established by a group of settlers who had been given a formal document allowing them to settle

• Royal Colony

• Charter Colony

• Proprietary Colony

More than 15,000 journeyed to New England for religious freedom and economic opportunity

• Columbian Exhange

• Triangle Trade

• Mercantilism

• Great Migration

The Pilgrim's charter

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders

• Magna Carta

• House of Burgesses

Group in New England who wanted to have simpler services than the Church of England

• Quakers

• Pilgrims

• Puritans

• Seperatists

To disagree with or oppose an opinion

• Debtor

• Persecute

• Dissent

• Tolerance