Ch.2 Vocab

a document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony

• dissented

• charter

• burgess

• tolerance

to disagree with or oppose an opinion

• pacificts

• burgess

• tolerance

• dissented

people opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes

• pacifists

• persecuted

• patroons

• charter

company in which investors buy stock in the company for shares

• joint stock company

• charter

• pacifists

• persecute

elected representative to an assembly

• indentured servant

• charter

• burgess

• tolerance

50 acre grant of land given to colonial settlers that paid

• ethnic

• headright

• tolerance

• patroon

the ability to accept and respect different views or behaviors

• dissented

• charter

• persecuted

• tolerance

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

• persecuted

• patroons

• indentured servant

• tolerance

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

• indigo

• patroon

• Indentured servant

• dissented

a landowner in the Dutch colonists who ruled over large areas

• persecuted

• burgess

• indentured servant

• patroons