Chapter 3 - Colonial America

A company in which investors buy stock in the company in return for a share of its future profit

• Triangular Trade

• Cash Crop Company

• Joint-stock Company

• Proprietary Colony

Elected representatives to an assembly

• burgesses

• charters

• Pilgrims

• Separatists

Disagreement with or opposite to an opinion

• dissent(ed)

• appeasement

• toleration

• pacifists

to treat someone harshly because of their beliefs or practice

• dissent

• pacificists

• persecute(d)

• toleration

Protestants who, during the 1600s, wanted to reform the Anglican church.

• Puritans

• Separatists

• Pilgrims

• Patriots

Protestants who, during the 1600s, wanted to break away from the Anglican church in order to find their own

• Patriots

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Separatists

Separatists who journeyed to the colonies during the 1600s for a religious purpose

• Patriots

• Pilgrims

• Puritans

• Debtors

A formal document, written in 1620, that provided law and order to the Plymouth colony

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Declaration of Independence

• Mayflower Compact

• Titanic Compact

The acceptance of different beliefs

• toleration

• persecuted

• dissented

• debtor

Colony run by individuals or groups to whom land was granted

• Royal Colony

• Proprietary Colony

• Joint-Stock Colony

• Mayflower Colony