Ch 2 Vocabulary (Colonial America)

Person who owes money

• debtor

• dissent

• pacifist

• headright

ability to accept or put up with different views or behaviors

• tolerance

• constitution

• patroon

• debtor

To disagree with or oppose an opinion

• dissent

• debtor

• persecute

• charter

company in which investors buy stock in the company for shares

• joint stock company

• headright

• burgess

• indentured servant

laborer who agrees to work without pay in exchange for a ticket

• indentured servant

• burgess

• pacifist

• headright

to mistreat a person or group on the basis of their beliefs

• persecute

• tolerance

• dissent

• patroon

Person opposed to the use of war to settle disputes

• pacifist

• patroon

• debtor

• burgess

elected representatives to an assembly

• burgess

• indentured servant

• patroon

• headright

document granting recipient the right to settle a colony

• charter

• constitution

• headright

• joint stock company

List of fundamental laws to support a government

• constitution

• charter

• headright

• patroon