Colonial America Vocabulary Grade 8

burgesses

• Small hills

• land owner

• lawyer

• representatives

headright

• land grant

• leader

• shareholder

• stock

joint-stock company

• investors buy shares & are part owners

• official document

• plantation owner

• entrepenuer

charter

• map

• document granted the right to form a colony

• merchant

• royal colony

dissented

• agreed with

• to break away completely

• to flee

• to disagree with

persecuted

• mistreated because of their beliefs

• excused

• included

• celebrated

tolerance

• to deny

• to accept

• to forfeit

• to escape

patroons

• someone who sells merch

• a person who obeys the law

• a person who tells the truth

• a landowner

pacifists

• a person who is angry

• a person who is funny

• a person who refuses to fight

• a person who is annoying

indentured servant

• laborer who agrees to work without pay for a set time in exchange for passage to America

• someone who settles in a forbidden area

• a criminal who consistently breaks the law

• someone who opposes the government