WorksheetsChapter 3: Colonial America Vocabulary
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
A document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony
Charter
Debtor
Burgess
Patroon
The ability to accept or put up with different views or behaviors
Persecute
Headright
Pacifists
Tolerance
A grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way
Headright
Tolerance
Constitution
Pacifists
Laborer who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America
Charter
Debtor
Indentured Servant
Patroon
People opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes
Tolerance
Pacifists
Persecute
Headright
To disagree with or oppose an opinion
Dissent
Constitution
Persecute
Tolerance
A list of fundamental laws to support a government
Headright
Constitution
Pacifists
Persecute
A company in which investors buy stock in return for a share of the company's future profits
Constitution
Joint Stock Company
Headright
Tolerance
To mistreat people or groups on the basis of their beliefs
Tolerance
Persecute
Pacifists
Dissent
Person or country that owes money
Debtor
Dissent
Tolerance
Headright
Elected representative to an assembly
Debtor
Burgess
Headright
Pacifists
Pacifist that settled in Pennsylvania for Religious Freedom
Quaker
Headright
Puritan
Pilgrim
One who travels on a religious journey. Settlers who landed in Plymouth.
Quaker
Pilgrim
Puritan
Debtor
A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.
Quaker
Pilgrim
Puritan
Burgess
Agricultural products grown with the specific intention to sell & make money.
Debtor
Cash Crops
Subsistence Farming
Imports
Form of farming in which all the crops and livestock raised are used to maintain the farmer’s own family
Cash Crops
Debtor
Subsistence Farming
Exports
Bringing goods and/or services into a country from international sources.
Export
Import
Cash Crop
Subsistence Farming
Sending out goods and/or services to other countries for sale.
Import
Export
Cash Crop
Subsistence Farming
