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U.S I
Ch 1
| Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
| Conquistadors | companies started by investors that share the gains and losses |
| Hernan Cortes | Spanish Leader |
| Columbian Exchange | transatlantic trade of goods, money, and animals |
| Joint Stock Companies | Spanish Explorers |
| Plantations | farms used by slaveowners to grow crops for money |
| Indentured Servant | a slave that works for a seven year period of time for freedom |
| Slave | a human being used for labor without pay |
| Cash Crops | money making goods such as corn, rice and tobbaco |
| Mercantilism | a three way trade of goods, money, and slaves between the Americas, Europe, and Africa |
| Triangular Trade | a economic system where land is rented out for profit |