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Colonization
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| plantations | large farms |
| slavery | the practice of holding people against their will and making them work without pay |
| borderlands | lands on the edge of Spain´s claims |
| presidios | forts |
| missions | religious settlements |
| Santa Fe | capital of the New Mexico colony |
| haciendas | large homes or estates |
| raw material | a resource that can be used to make a product |
| stock | part ownership in a business |
| Jamestown | Virginia's first permanent settlement |
| cash crop | a crop that people grow to sell |
| profit | the money left over after all costs have been paid |
| indentured servants | The Virginia Company paid for people´s passages, or trips, to Virginia. In return, the people agreed to work without pay for a length of time (4-7 years) |
| legislature | lawmaking branch of the government (House of Burgesses) |
| represent | someone to speak for people in the government |
| royal colony | a colony that the king owned the colony |
| pilgrim | a person who makes a journey for religious reasons |
| compact | a signed document where signers agreed that fair laws would be made for the good of the colony |
| self-government | the right to govern themselves |
| majority rule | If more than half the people agreed to a law or a decision, everyone had to follow it |
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