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WorksheetsColonial America Vocabulary Grade 8
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
burgesses
Small hills
land owner
lawyer
representatives
headright
land grant
leader
shareholder
stock
joint-stock company
investors buy shares & are part owners
official document
plantation owner
entrepenuer
charter
map
document granted the right to form a colony
merchant
royal colony
dissented
agreed with
to break away completely
to flee
to disagree with
persecuted
mistreated because of their beliefs
excused
included
celebrated
tolerance
to deny
to accept
to forfeit
to escape
patroons
someone who sells merch
a person who obeys the law
a person who tells the truth
a landowner
pacifists
a person who is angry
a person who is funny
a person who refuses to fight
a person who is annoying
indentured servant
laborer who agrees to work without pay for a set time in exchange for passage to America
someone who settles in a forbidden area
a criminal who consistently breaks the law
someone who opposes the government
constitution
1st ten amendments
land grant
unofficial document
list of fundamental laws to support a government
debtors
person or country that owes money
person who flees a country
country who invades a smaller region
country that is taken over by force
