Chapter 3 Vocabulary

Question 0

Joint stock company

Answer 0

A company where inventors by stock or part of the company itself

Question 1

Charter

Answer 1

Documents Granting the right to organize settlement in the area

Question 2

Head right

Answer 2

A 50 our piece of land that was given to anyone who paid for a worker or industrial servant to come to America

Question 3

Dissent

Answer 3

A disagreements with an opinion

Question 4

Puritan

Answer 4

Promestent that wanted to reform the Church of England

Question 5

Separatist

Answer 5

Wanted to leave The church of England and set up their own church

Question 6

Pilgrim

Answer 6

Journey to separate from church of England

Question 7

Patroon

Answer 7

A person in the Dutch colonies who controlled large areas of land like a king

Question 8

Proprietary colony

Answer 8

Owner owned and controlled government

Question 9

Indentured servant

Answer 9

Agreed to work without pay for a certain amount of time

Question 10

Constitution

Answer 10

A list of basic laws to support a government

Question 11

Debtor

Answer 11

A person or country that owns money

Question 12

Tenant farmer

Answer 12

A farmer who works on land that is owned by someone else

Question 13

Mission

Answer 13

Religious settlement established to convert people to a faith

Question 14

Pacifist

Answer 14

Person opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disagreements