CH. 3 Colonial America Vocabulary

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

• Document

• Charter

• Paper

• Magna Carta

to try to discover facts and other information about something.

• Looking

• Checking

• Investigating

• Investing

a company in which investors buy stock in return for a share of it’s future profits.

• Joint-stock company

• Joint company

• Partnership

• Virginia Company

a 50 acre grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way.

• 50 acres

• Indentured Servant

• Land right system

• Head right system

 elected representative to an assembly.

• Burgess

• Representative

• Legislator

• Voter

to increase in size or number.

• Expand

• Size

• Growth

• Bigger

to disagree with or oppose an opinion.

• Puritan

• Disserter

• Dissent

• Opposer

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

• Separatists

• Pilgrim

• Puritan

• Persecutor

someone who travels to a shrine or sacred place.

• Samoset

• Squanto

• Pilgrim

• Native Americans

the ability to accept or put up with different views or behaviors.

• Tolerance

• Beware

• Enforce

• Dissent