Colonaization and Settlment Unit 3 Vocabulary

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Push factors

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Reasons people leave an area

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Pull factors

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Reason people migrate to new area

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Colony

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A territory controlled by another country

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Settlement

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A new community in a new place

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Plantation

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A very large farm where people grow crops to sell

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Joint-stock company

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When people invest in a company in order to earn profits

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Indentured servant

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A person who agreed to work as a servant for a certain number of years in exchange for a trip to the “New World”

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Cash crop

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A crop that is grown in order to be sold

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House of Burgesses

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The Jamestown group of men who made the laws

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Proprietor

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A person who was given land for a colony by the king or queen and allowed to govern the colony.