Unit 1: Settlement and Development Vocabulary

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The system of exchanging goods and services without using money.

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Barter

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To send settlers to a place and establish control over it.

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Colonize

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A crop grown for the purpose of selling, not for the grower to use.

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Cash crop

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Farming that produces enough food to meet one’s needs without any surplus for sale.

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Subsistence Farming

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A ruling class made up of wealthy planters who hold great influence over a society’s economic, cultural, and political life.

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Plantocracy

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A document granting permission to create a colony and defining its rights and privileges.

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Charter

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The owner of a property or business.

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Proprietor

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A tract of land offered to settlers who would come and work the land.

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Headright

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An economic theory or system in which colonies send raw materials to the mother country to benefit the mother country and make it self-sufficient.

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Mercantilism

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to import or export goods secretly and in violation of laws

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smuggle