Chapter 3 Vocab

Question	Answer
Charter	document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony
Joint-Stock Company	business in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profits
Head-right	50-acre grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way
Burgess	Elected representative to an assembly
House of Burgesses	First democratically-elected (representative) legislative body in the British American colonies
Dissent	Difference of opinion
Persecute	Subject someone to hostility/ill-treatment based on their character and traits
Tolerance	To tolerate something and allow something to occur without inference
Patroon	Landowner in Dutch colonies who ruled over large areas of land
Pacifist	Against solving disputes with violence and physical altercations in general
Indentured servant	Labourer who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America
Constitution	Detailed written plan for a government; a list of basic laws that support a government
Debtor	Person or country that owes money

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