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Frage | Antworten |
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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