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5.2.1 Exploration 3
5.2.1 Exploration and Colonization Part 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Indentured servant- a person who agrees to work for a set period of time without pay in exchange for necessities | a person who agrees to work for a set period of time without pay in exchange for necessities |
| Puritan | an early settler who left England so he or she could practice a religion freely |
| Diverse | showing much variety |
| Barter | to trade goods or services for other goods or services without using money |
| Export | a product sent from one country to another to be sold |
| Import | a product brought into a country to be sold |
| Raw materials | resources that are used to manufacture products |
| Mercantilism | economic ideas popular in the 1600s and 1700s which suggested that government should limit imports but increase manufacturing and exports. |
| Triangular trade | trade routes between Africa, the Americas and Europe, in which ships carried cash crops, manufactured goods, and enslaved people. |
| Artisan | a worker skilled in a trade, usually done by hand |
| Class | a societal group |
| Free enterprise | the right of individuals to do business with little government control |
| Slavery | the practice of owning and controlling people against their will |
| Middle Passage | the part of the triangular trade route in which captured and enslaved Africans were sent by ship, under terrible conditions, to be sold in the Americas |
| uprising | a rebellion |