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| Charter | a document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area |
| Joint-Stock Company | a company in which investors buy stock in the company in return for a share of its future profits |
| Burgesses | elected representatives to an assembly |
| Dissent | disagreement with or opposition to an opinion |
| Persecute | to treat someone harshly because of that person's beliefs or practices |
| Puritan | Protestants who, during the 1600s, wanted to reform the Anglican Church |
| Separatist | Protestants who, during the 1600s, wanted to leave the Anglican Church in order to found their own churches |
| Pilgrims | Separatists who journeyed to the colonies during the 1600s for a religious purpose |
| Mayflower Compact | a formal document, written in 1620, that provided law and order to the Plymouth colony |
| Toleration | the acceptanceof different beliefs |
| Patroon | landowner in the Dutch colonies who ruled like a king over large areas of land |
| Proprietary Colony | colony run by individuals or groups to whom land was granted |
| Pacifist | person opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes |
| Indentured Servant | laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America |
| Constitution | a formal plan of government |
| Debtor | person or country that owes money |
| Tenant Farmer | farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or crops |
| Mission | religious settlement |
