THE UNITED STATES VOCABULARY FOR CHAPTER 5
THE STRUGGLE TO FOUND COLONIES
1. charter: Official document giving a person or group permission to do something
2. stock: Share (or part ownership) in a company
3. cash crop: Crop grown to be sold for a profit
4. indentured servant: Person who agreed to work for someone for a certain amount of time in exchange for the cost of the voyage to North America
5. House of Burgesses: Lawmaking assembly in colonial Virginia
6. Northwest Passage: Water route that explorers hoped would flow through North America, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
7. Pilgrim: Person who travels to a new place for religious reasons
8 Separatists: Group of people from England who wanted to separate themselves from the Church of England. Some traveled to North America in search of religious freedom.
9. persecution: Unjust treatment because of one’s beliefs
10. Mayflower Compact: Plan of government written by the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower.
11. Puritans: Group of people who wanted to “purify” the Church of England. They established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
12. dissenter: Person whose views differ from those of his or her leader
13. proprietor: Owner
14. debtor: Person who owes money