Social Studies Chapter 3 Vocab Review

A document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony

• patroon

• charter

• constitution

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

• dissent

• headright

• joint-stock company

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

• headright

• patroon

• burgess

Elected representative to an assembly

• pacifists

• burgess

• indentured servant

To disagree with or oppose an opinion

• dissent

• persecute

• tolerate

To mistreat a person or group on the basis of their beliefs

• debtor

• indenture

• persecute

The ability to accept or put up with different views or behaviors

• tolerance

• patroon

• debtor

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

• indentured servant

• patroon

• debtor

People opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes

• burgess

• pacifists

• headright

Indentured servant

• person or country that owes money

• landowner in the Dutch colonies

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