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Colonization
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |