Impact Science 8th Grade United States History Chapter 2 Review

Chapter 2 Review for Test

Charter

A document granting the holder the right to settle a colony.

Joint-Stock-Company

A business in which investors buy stock in return for its future profits/

Headright

A 50-acre grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way.

Burgess

Elected representative to an assembly. (Important: It was only in Virginia.)

Patroon

Landowners in Dutch Colonies who ruled over large areas of land.

Indentured Servant

Laborer who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America.

Constitution 

A detailed written plan for a government; a list of basic laws that support a government.

Subsistence Farming

Producing just enough to meet immediate needs.

Slave Codes

Rules focusing on the behavior and punishment of enslaved people; laws in the Southern states that controlled enslaved people.

Abolitionists

A person who sought the end of slavery in the United States during the early and mid-1800s.