Chapter 3 Vocab

Question 1

burgesses

Answer 1

elected representative to an assembly

Question 2

patroons

Answer 2

landowner in the Dutch colonies

Question 3

pacifists

Answer 3

people who refused to fight in wars

Question 4

indentured servants

Answer 4

laborers who agreed to work without pay for a period of time to pay for their passage to the New World

Question 5

debtors

Answer 5

one who owes money

Question 6

estate

Answer 6

large area of land owned by one person

Question 7

headright

Answer 7

50-acre grant given to settlers who paid their own way

Question 8

investigate

Answer 8

to try to discover facts and other information about something

Question 9

joint-stock company

Answer 9

a company where people but stock for future profits

Question 10

expand

Answer 10

to increase in size or number

Question 11

dissent

Answer 11

to disagree

Question 12

persecute

Answer 12

to mistreat people because of their beliefs

Question 13

tolerance

Answer 13

the ability to put up with other views or behaviors

Question 14

enforce

Answer 14

to apply a rule or law

Question 15

policy

Answer 15

a statement of ideals or a plan of action

Question 16

ethnic

Answer 16

of or relating to the cultural background

Question 17

functional

Answer 17

to operate

Question 18

dominated

Answer 18

to control

Question 19

indigo

Answer 19

a bluish dye made from the indigofera

Question 20

charter

Answer 20

a document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony

Question 21

consitution

Answer 21

a list of fundamental laws to support a government