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Vocab 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Colonization | When one nation sends people to a place to establish their own permanet settlements, often using force, to gain wealth and power |
| Colonial | Relating to or having the status of a colony |
| Colonist | A person who voluntarily settles in a colony |
| Colony | An area that is controlled by a foreign country that is often faraway |
| Indigenous | Coming from a particular place and having lived there for a long time before other people came there |
| Slavery | A system of forced labor for the social, political and economic gain of the enslaver that deprived enslaved people of the rights to their labor, their families, and their persons |
| Enslaved Person | A person who is made the property of another, is forced to work, and does not have freedom. |
| Ensl;aver | A person who enslaves another person and owns them as property |
| Race | A social construct used to categorize people in groups based on traits like skin color, physical features, or the identity of their ancestors |
| Resistance | An act or effort to fight against something or someone or a refusal to accept something |
| Chattel slavery | A form of slavery that allowed people to be owned as property that could be bought, sold, given, and inherited |
| Agency | The ability to act and exert power over ones own life |
| Human dignity | The right of all people to be self-determining, valued, and respected because they are human |
| Freedom | The state of being free, not being imprisoned or enslaved; the power to do what you want |
| Confederacy | An organization consisting of countries,states, tribes, or groups that have joined together to help each other |
| Treaty | An official agreement made between sovereign nations |