The Colonies Vocab

A business formed by a group of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses.

• Joint-Stock Company
• Headright System
• General Court
• Fundamental Orders

A person who speaks out against an institution. Someone who wants an organization to change.

• Dissenter
• Socialist
• Quaker
• Indentured Servant

To have two groups of people make rules or laws for a community<br />

• Unicameral

• Bicameral

• Tricameral

• General Court

Reasons people are attracted to move to a new location.

• Push Factors

• Pull Factors

• Fundamental Orders

• Dissenter

A belief that that allowed many different religions worshiped in a community.

• Representative Government

• Religious Tolerance

• Fundamental Orders

• Dissenter

A Puritain group whose members believed in equality and that all people could reach salvation.

• Catholics

• Pilgrims

• Quaker

• Puritans

A colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years.

• Slave
• Indentured Servant
• Puritans
• Proprietors

A crop that is continuously in demand (Corn, Wheat, Oats).

• Staple Crops
• Cash Crops
• Rotating Crops
• Hardy Crops

A method of making rules in a community that involves selecting a leader to speak on the behalf of your part of the community.

• Representative Government
• General Court
• Fundamental Orders
• Socialism

A system in Virginia where a colonists who paid their own way to travel to a colony from Europe received 50 acres of land.

• Joint-Stock Company
• General Court
• Headright System
• Fundamental Orders