The 13 Colonies Vocabulary

A group of people living in a new area under the rule of their "mother country"

• Plantation
• Colony
• Charter
• House of Burgesses

A permit... the European ruler gives rights to a person, group or company in order to start a colony.

• colony
• charter
• import
• export

A group of respresentatives that made laws from the jamestown colonly

• mayflower compact
• house of burgesses
• middle passage
• triangular trade

A contract or agreement signed by the Pilgrams who came over on the Mayflower ship.

• charter
• mayflower contract
• Triangular Trade
• Import

A product brought into a country

• export
• Triangular Trade
• import
• Mayflower Contract

A product that leaves a country

• Import
• Export
• indentured servant
• middle passage

A three way trade route between Europe, the Americans and Africa

• middle passage
• mayflower compact
• triangular trade
• plantation

A trip that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America.  A deadly and horrible journey for slaves.

• Slave Code 
• Triangular Trade
• middle Passage
• mayflower compact

A large plantation that grows huge amounts of a certain crop is called

• triangular trade
• a plantation
• The middle passage
• indentured servent

Laws that stated the rights of slaves or the right they could not have are called

• indentured servants
• slave codes
• mayflower compact