Quiz 8.2 Match the following words with their definitions

Charter

Subsistence farming

Constitution.

Joint-stock company

Slave codes.

Burgess

Indentured servant.

Patroon

Headright.

Abolitionist

___ A 50 acre grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their

own way.

People who wanted to outlaw slavery in the colonies.

A company in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its

future profits

a list of fundamental laws to support a government

a document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony

producing just enough to meet immediate needs

elected representative to an assembly

landowner in the Dutch colonies who ruled over large areas of land

rules governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved Africans

laborer who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time

In exchange for passage to America.