Ch. 3 Vocabulary

a document that granted the right to form a colony

• charter

• estate

• debtor

• patroon

a company in which the investors buy stock in return for a share of the future profits

• headright

• joint-stock-company

• persecute

• pacifist

elected representative to an assembly

• dissent

• indentured servant

• burgess

• patroon

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

• estate

• indigo

• dominate

• headright

to disagree with or oppose an opinion

• dissent

• tolerance

• expand

• policy

to increase in size or number

• investigate

• expand

• burgess

• dominate

to try to discover facts and other information about something

• charte r

• pacifist

• investigate

• policy

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

• dissent

• charter

• tolerance

• persecute

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

• tolerance

• enforce

• indigo

• investigate

to apply a law or rule

• dominate

• indentured servant

• enforce

• constitution