Chapter 3: Colonial America Vocabulary

A document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony

• Charter

• Debtor

• Burgess

• Patroon

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

• Persecute

• Headright

• Pacifists

• Tolerance

A grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way

• Headright

• Tolerance

• Constitution

• Pacifists

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

• Charter

• Debtor

• Indentured Servant

• Patroon

People opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes

• Tolerance

• Pacifists

• Persecute

• Headright

To disagree with or oppose an opinion

• Dissent

• Constitution

• Persecute

• Tolerance

A list of fundamental laws to support a government

• Headright

• Constitution

• Pacifists

• Persecute

A company in which investors buy stock in return for a share of the company's future profits

• Constitution

• Joint Stock Company

• Headright

• Tolerance

To mistreat people or groups on the basis of their beliefs

• Tolerance

• Persecute

• Pacifists

• Dissent

Person or country that owes money

• Debtor

• Dissent

• Tolerance

• Headright