front 1 charter | back 1 document from the sovereign granting a right |
front 2 headright | back 2 land grant |
front 3 burgesses | back 3 legislative representative |
front 4 dissent | back 4 to disagree |
front 5 persecute | back 5 to harass; to bully/ to punish |
front 6 pilgrim | back 6 person who goes on a religious journey |
front 7 constitution | back 7 document stating the basic form and rules of a government |
front 8 establish | back 8 to create |
front 9 tolerance | back 9 willingness to allow or overlook |
front 10 dissident | back 10 person who refuses to go along with an official or prevailing belief or practice |
front 11 patroon | back 11 wealthy colonial landowner |
front 12 proprietary colony | back 12 colony in which an owner, or proprietor, owned all the land and controlled the government |
front 13 ethnic | back 13 of or relating to national, tribal, racial, religious, language, or cultural background |
front 14 pacifist | back 14 someone who opposes the use of war or violence to settle disputes |
front 15 perpetually | back 15 continually and always |
front 16 authority | back 16 the right to command obedience |
front 17 obtain | back 17 to get |
front 18 involuntarily | back 18 without choosing; against a person's will |
front 19 indentured servant | back 19 a person who pledges his or her labor for an amount of time in exchange for some payment |
front 20 extract | back 20 to pull or draw out of |
front 21 debtor | back 21 one who owes money |
front 22 refugee | back 22 one who flees his or her home to seek refuge or safety from some danger or ill |
front 23 subsistence farming | back 23 producing just enough to fee the family with none left over to sell or trade |
front 24 cash crop | back 24 agricultural product intended to be sold for profit |
front 25 contiguously | back 25 next to each other |
front 26 sundry | back 26 various |
front 27 save code | back 27 repressive rules governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved Africans |
front 28 civil | back 28 relating to citizens and the state |
front 29 evolve | back 29 to develop over time |
front 30 decline | back 30 to lessen |