Chapter 2 Vocabulary

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Charter

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A document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony.

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Joint-stock company

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A company in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profits.

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Headright

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A 50-acre grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way.

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Burgess

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Elected representative to an assembly.

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Patroon

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Landowner in the Dutch colonies who ruled over large areas of land.

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Indentured servant

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Laborer who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America.

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Constitution

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A list of fundamental laws to support a government.

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Subsistence farming

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Producing just enough to meet immediate needs.

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Slave codes

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Rules governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved Africans.

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Abolitionists

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People who wanted to outlaw slavery in the colonies.