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Quarter 1 Vocabulary
Unit 2-3 Voc Terms
| cash crop | fruit or vegetable that is grown to make a profit |
| palisade | a community surrounded by a large fence |
| plantation | a large farm that uses its land to grown cash crops |
| agriculture | a way of cultivating the earth so that you can grow food |
| colonization | building settlements in the hopes of claiming land for the Mother County |
| Indentured servant | someone who works to pay off a debt |
| Three Sisters | the natives grew corn, beans, and squash |
| Eastern Woodlands | the land from the Atlantic ocean and the Mississippi River, and it stretches from Canada to the bottom tip of Florida |
| Conquistadors | Spanish soldiers who came to conquer foreign lands |
| Slave | a person who works for someone for life |
| slash and burn agriculture | the natives cleared the land by cutting the trees and burning the ground to prepare it for farming |
| Catawba | one of the three main Natives Tribes that lived in the area we know call South Carolina |
| Virginia House of Burgesses | the first form of democratic self-government in the colonies which had selected representatives |
| Plantation Agriculture | focused on one or two cash crops and used slave labor |
| Stono Rebellion | was the biggest slave uprising in the colonies |
| Middle Passage | |
| Triangle Trade | trading routes that linked the American Colonies, West Indies, Africa and England together as they traded natural resources and goods |
| Mercantilism | a country gains strength by keeping tight control over its trade between its colonies and other countries |
| Navigation Act | first major act placed on the colonist that stated they could only trade with England |
| Salutary Neglect | the state at which the colonist were left to do as they pleased and England did not truly enforce its laws upon the colonist |
| Lord Proprietors | these were noblemen who received land grants and higher ranks in English nobility, they became the owner or manager of the colonies they set up |
| Planter | this is most often a wealthy man who has acquired lots of land and is using that land to grow cash crops |
| Small Farmer | an individual and his family who have acquired a small piece of land and they grow enough for themselves and to sell or trade |
| Naval Stores | these were goods such as tar, pitch, and turpentine and were used in ship building and they came from pine trees |
| subsistence farming | growing just enough food to feed yourself and your family |
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