Exploration and Colonization Vocab

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A crop grown for sale, not for the grower's use.

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Cash Crop

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Economic system allowing freedom to start businesses.

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Free Enterprise System

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A person who works for a set time without pay in exchange for essentials like food and shelter.

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Indentured Servent

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A Ruler

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Monarch

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Money a business earns after expenses.

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Profit

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A person chosen to act on behalf of others

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Representative

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Owning and controlling people against their will.

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Slavery

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Capture, enslavement, and sale of people for profit.

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Slave trade

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Trade route linking Africa, the Americas, and Europe, involving cash crops, goods, and enslaved people.

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Triangular trade route

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A rebellion

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Uprising