Colonial America Vocabulary

A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.

• colony

• joint stock company

• debtors

• country

A government ruled by a king or queen

• democracy

• oligarchy

• republic

• monarchy

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

• Proprietary Colony

• Royal Colony

• Charter Colony

• Joint Stock Colony

A company is made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.

• corporation

• small business

• nonprofit company

• joint stock company

treated badly and unfairly, usually because of religion, politics, or race

• persecuted

• debtor

• colonized

• enslaved

A religious group that wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

• Debtors

• Indentured Servants

• Puritans

• Catholics

English Puritans who founded Plymouth colony in 1620

• Indentured Servants

• Pilgrims

• Debtors

• Catholics

1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.

• The Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

• The Constitution

• The Mayflower Compact

colony run by individuals or groups to whom the land was granted

• Proprietary Colony

• Royal Colony

• Charter Colony

• Lost Colony

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

• Debtors

• Pilgrims

• Catholics

• Indentured Servants