The Struggle To Found Colonies

9 cards·by q.sanders@thomasvill

charter

official document giving a person or group permission to do something

stock

share in a company

cash crop

crops grown to be sold for profit

indentured servant

person who agreed to work for someone for a certain time

House of Burgesses

law-making assembly in colonial Virginia

Northwest Passage

water route that explorers hoped would flow through North America

Pilgrim

person who travels to a new place for religious reasons

Separatist

people from England who wanted to separate themselves

persecution

unjust treatment because of one's own belief