| A | B |
|---|
| Economic venture | to undertake a risk involving money in the hopes of making a profit |
| persecute | to treat someone in a harsh way because of that person's beliefs or religious practices |
| toleration | accepting the different beliefs and practices of others |
| interference | to enter or take part in the concerns of others |
| debtor | a person or country that owes money |
| indentured servant | laborer (worker) who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to the America |
| Burgesses | elected representatives to an assembly (governing group) |
| dissent | disagreement with or opposition to the opinion(s) of others |
| cash crop | crops grown for the main purpose of selling them to make money |
| pacifist | person agains the use of war or violence to settle disagreements or disputes |
| charter colony | colony established by a group of settlers who had been given a formal document giving them permission from the king or queen to settle |
| proprietary colony | colony run by individuals or groups to whom land is given |
| royal colony | colony run by a governor and a council appointed by the king or queen |
| separatist | People of the Protestant religion who, during the 1600's, wanted to leave the Anglican Church in order to found their own churches |
| Puritans | Protestants who, during the 1600's, wanted to reform the Anglican Church |
| Pilgrims | Separatists who journeyed to the colonies during the 1600's for a religious purpose |
