The Early American Colonies

a person who journeys for religious reasons

• Puritan

• Pilgrim

• dissenter

crop grown for profit

• stock

• debtor

• cash crop

owner

• proprietor

• dissenter

• debtor

person who owes money

• proprietor

• dissenter

• debtor

unjust treatment to a person because of his or her beliefs

• charter

• stock

• persecution

a person whose views differ from others

• dissenter

• proprietor

• debtor

person who wanted to separate from the Church of England

• Pilgrim

• Puritan

• Separatist

waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

• Mayflower Compact

• Northwest Passage

• House of Burgesses

shares in a company often sold to raise money for the company

• stock

• charter

• cash crop

the first law-making assembly in an English colony

• Mayflower Compact

• Northwest Passage

• House of Burgesses