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Colonization
Term | Definition |
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cash crop | a crop that people grow to sell |
profit | is the money left over after all costs have been paid |
indentured servant | people who agreed to work without pay for a length of time. |
colony | land ruled by another country |
plantation | large farm |
slavery | practice of holding people against their will and them work without pay. |
raw material | resource that can be used to make a product. |
New England Colony | colonies that relied on lumber, shipbuilding, fishing |
industry | all the businesses that make one kind of product or offer one kind of service |
export | are goods sent out of the country |
import | are goods brought back into a country |
triangular trade route | routes that connected the English Colonies, West Indies, and Africa |
middle passage | enslaved Africans were placed on ships and forced to travel across the Atlantic ocean |
Middle Colonies | Diversity was allowed, religious freedom, farming, trade, nicknamed Bread Basket |
immigrant | person who comes into a country to make a new home there |
diversity | groups thrown together from different parts of the world |
apprentice | learn a trade from a master artisan |
Southern Colony | Have large plantations, grew tobacco, indigo, rice, religious freedom |