| A | B |
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| charter | a document granting the right to settle a colony |
| persecute | to mistreat a person |
| burgess | an elected representative |
| debtor | a person who owes money |
| patroon | Dutch land owner |
| joint-stock company | a company where investors buy stocks hoping for a profit |
| headright | a 50-acre grant of land given to colonists who paid their own way |
| dissent | to disagree |
| tolerate | to put up with different views |
| pacifist | a person who does not support violence |
| Plymouth | a Pilgrim colony in Massachusetts |
| House of Burgess | Jamestown's legislative assembly |
| Thomas Hooker | founder of Hartford, Connecticut |
| William Berkeley | Virginia's governor |
| tobacco | product that Jamestown made a profit with |
| Separatists | Protestants who left the Anglican Church for America |
| Fundamental Orders of Conneticut | first constitution in America |
| Maryland | colony started for Catholics to worship |
| Rhode Island | colony that first had religious tolerance |
| Massachusetts | colony that Plymouth was located |
| Pennsylvania | colony where pacifists practiced |
| Nathaniel Bacon | Virginia farmer who wanted to expand west |
| Gov. Berkeley | tried to stop war with Native Americans |
| John Smith | made people work in Jamestown to be fed |
