Chapter 5 Vocabulary

Question 1

Document that permitted colonists to settle on land claimed by their ruler

Answer 1

charter

Question 2

person who journeys for religious reasons

Answer 2

Pilgrim

Question 3

A person whose views differ from others’

Answer 3

dissenter

Question 4

Shares in a company often sold to raise money for the company

Answer 4

stock

Question 5

Pilgrims’ written plan of government for their colony

Answer 5

Mayflower Compact

Question 6

Crop grown for profit

Answer 6

cash crop

Question 7

Waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Answer 7

Northwest Passage

Question 8

person who owes money

Answer 8

debtor

Question 9

unjust treatment to a person because of his or her beliefs

Answer 9

persecution

Question 10

A person who agreed to work for someone for a certain amount of time in exchange for the cost of the ocean voyage to North America

Answer 10

indentured servant

Question 11

group from England who wanted to purify, or reform, the Church of England

Answer 11

Puritan

Question 12

person who wanted to separate from the Church of England

Answer 12

Separatist

Question 13

owner

Answer 13

proprietor

Question 14

the first law-making assembly in an English colony

Answer 14

House of Burgesses