Colonial Vocab

Document created by the Pilgrims about how the colony would be run before they landed at Plymouth Rock.

• Charter

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Dissent

A person who worked without pay for a certain amount of time in order to pay for passage to America.

• Pacifist

• Debtor

• Separatist

• Indentured Servant

Documents that granted the permission to organize settlements in an area.

• Mayflower Compact

• House of Burgess

• Charter

• Dissent

People who refuse to use force or to fight in wars.

• Puritan

• Separatist

• Pilgrim

• Pacifist

People not able to repay money they owe others.

• Debtors

• Pacifist

• Puritan

• Pilgrim

Protestant who wanted to reform/change the Church of England.

• Pilgrim

• Puritan

• Separatist

• Indentured Servant

Protestant who wanted to leave the Church of England and set up their own church.

• Puritan

• Pacifist

• Debtor

• Separatist

The first written constitution in America.

• House of Burgess

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Indentured Servant

To disagree with the beliefs and practices of a religious group.

• Dissent

• Debtor

• Pacifist

• Charter

First representative government of the colonies found in Virginia.

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Indentured Servant

• Mayflower Compact

• House of Burgess