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New World
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cash crop | plant grown for the purpose of selling it for profit. |
| colonization | the process of establishing control over a foreign area, |
| colony | a group of people with a shared interest or job who live together |
| Columbian Exchange | the global exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Americas, Europe, and Africa |
| Conquistador | a person who is out to conquer new territory |
| Encomienda System | The spanish labor system |
| Jamestown | 1st successful colony 1607 |
| Puritans | A group of people who sought to live by the bible in the purest form. |
| Glorious Revolution | a series of events in 1688–89 that led to the overthrow of King James II and the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in England. |
| indentured servant | people who agreed to work for a period of time in exchange for a trip. |
| Joint Stock Companies | They have a investors shareholders profit. |
| mercantilism | an economic system that grows and benefits an empire. |
| middle passage | the stage of the Atlantic slave trade where enslaved Africans were transported from West Africa to the Americas |
| plantation | tobacco and cotton land where cash crops grow |
| tobacco | a cash crop first grown in Jamestown and then later throughout the middle colonies to make money for the mother empire |
| slavery | the practice of forcing people to work and limiting their freedom |
| chattel | personal items, as opposed to actual land property |
| triangular trade | the trade pattern/ routes during the 1600s between the colonies and countries. |
| subsistence farming | Raising livestock and crops for personal use. |
| Mayflower compact | agreement to make laws for general good. |
| Direct Democracy | a system where everyone has a voice / that allows members of a group to decide what is good or bad for them. |
| Town Hall Meeting | Everyone in town gets together to talk |
| dissent | dissatisfaction with or opposition or disagreement to the policies of a governing body |
| religious tolerance | people should be able to practice their own religion |
| Rights of Englishmen | basic rights that subjects of the English monarch have. |
| House of Burgesses | first elected to make laws and to represent a borough |
| Representative Democracy | the representatives are elected by the public |
| covenant community | a group of people who make a commitment to each other and to a common way of life |
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