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Chapter 3: Colonial America Vocabulary

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony

a)

Charter

b)

Debtor

c)

Burgess

d)

Patroon

2.

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

a)

Persecute

b)

Headright

c)

Pacifists

d)

Tolerance

3.

A grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way

a)

Headright

b)

Tolerance

c)

Constitution

d)

Pacifists

4.

Laborer who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America

a)

Charter

b)

Debtor

c)

Indentured Servant

d)

Patroon

5.

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

a)

Tolerance

b)

Pacifists

c)

Persecute

d)

Headright

6.

To disagree with or oppose an opinion

a)

Dissent

b)

Constitution

c)

Persecute

d)

Tolerance

7.

A list of fundamental laws to support a government

a)

Headright

b)

Constitution

c)

Pacifists

d)

Persecute

8.

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

a)

Constitution

b)

Joint Stock Company

c)

Headright

d)

Tolerance

9.

To mistreat people or groups on the basis of their beliefs

a)

Tolerance

b)

Persecute

c)

Pacifists

d)

Dissent

10.

Person or country that owes money

a)

Debtor

b)

Dissent

c)

Tolerance

d)

Headright

11.

Elected representative to an assembly

a)

Debtor

b)

Burgess

c)

Headright

d)

Pacifists

12.

Pacifist that settled in Pennsylvania for Religious Freedom

a)

Quaker

b)

Headright

c)

Puritan

d)

Pilgrim

13.

One who travels on a religious journey. Settlers who landed in Plymouth.

a)

Quaker

b)

Pilgrim

c)

Puritan

d)

Debtor

14.

A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

a)

Quaker

b)

Pilgrim

c)

Puritan

d)

Burgess

15.

Agricultural products grown with the specific intention to sell & make money.

a)

Debtor

b)

Cash Crops

c)

Subsistence Farming

d)

Imports

16.

Form of farming in which all the crops and livestock raised are used to maintain the farmer’s own family

a)

Cash Crops

b)

Debtor

c)

Subsistence Farming

d)

Exports

17.

Bringing goods and/or services into a country from international sources. 

a)

Export

b)

Import

c)

Cash Crop

d)

Subsistence Farming

18.

Sending out goods and/or services to other countries for sale. 

a)

Import

b)

Export

c)

Cash Crop

d)

Subsistence Farming