SS Ch5 L1,2,3,4 Vocab

a document that permitted colonists to settle on land

• Charter

• Deed

• Treaty

• Patent

a share in a company

• Stock

• Bond

• Equity

• Fund

a crop grown for profit

• Cash Crop

• Staple Crop

• Food Crop

• Fiber Crop

a person who agreed to work for another person in exchange for the cost of the ocean voyage to North America

• Indentured servant

• Indentured bond

• Indentured laborer

• Indentured apprentice

the first law-making body in the English colonies

• What is the House of Burgesses?

• What is the Continental Congress?

• What is the British Parliament?

• What is the Privy Council?

a waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

• What is the Northwest Passage?

• What is the Panama Canal?

• What is the Suez Canal?

• What is the Strait of Magellan?

a person who goes on a journey for religious reasons

• Pilgrim

• Traveller

• Nomad

• Traveler

a person who wanted to separate from the Church of England

• Separatist

• Reformer

• Dissenter

• Revolutionary

unfair treatment because of beliefs

• Proprietor

• Separation

• Persecution

• Perception

Mayflower Compact

• a plan of government for the town of Plymouth.

• an agreement for shared land ownership.

• a declaration of religious freedom.

• a treaty with Native Americans.