03 Colonial America

To mistreat a person or group on the basis of their beliefs.

• Persecute

• Dissent

• Tolerance

• Pacifist

A document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony.

• Charter

• Headright

• Burgess

• Patroon

A list of fundamental laws to support a government.

• Charter

• Dissent

• Joint-Stock Company

• Constitution

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

• Debtor

• Indentured Servant

• Pacifist

• Burgess

Where was Jamestown located?

• Massachusetts

• Virginia

• New Jersey

The Jamestown settlers made a profit for their investors by raising

• cotton

• corn

• tobacco

How did the Virginia Company try to increase the number of settlers moving to their colony?

• They gave 50 acres of land to each new settler who would move there

• They convinced the King of England to send people who had committed minor crimes to live in Virginia.

• They offered people three gold bars if they moved to Virginia and stayed there for three years.

Protestants who left the Anglican Church and established their own churches were called

• Anglican

• New Anglicans

• Separatists

What religious group founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

• Puritans

• Catholics

• Protestants

How did the Netherlands encourage settlement of their colony in the New World?

• They gave away land to anyone who could bring at least 50 new settlers.

• They promised them religious freedom.

• They gave each new settler two slaves to help them start a farm.