8th Grade Social Studies Vocabulary

Ethnicity

• theory
• race/culture
• contract or document
• settling in a new area

charter

• race/culture
• trade/barter
• contract or document
• to work for passage to the New World

Mercantilism

• contract or document
• for the benefit of the United States
• population in a square mile
• for the benefit of the Mother Country

Colonization

• settling a new area
• large farms in the South
• complaint
• to take back/revoke

Plantation

• settling a new area
• to not get involved
• small farm in the South
• large farm in the South

Cash Crops

• crops grown for money
• tax on imports or exports
• to not get involved 
• crops grown for England

Boycott

• to change or add to
• to come to an agreement
• producing goods in America
• refusal to buy or use 

Amend

• refusal to buy or use
• to change or add to
• to take back/revoke
• compromise

Colonial Era

• ruled by violence
• 1600s America until the Revolution
• 1800s Period of Good Feelings
• cruel or unjust treatment

Delegate

• Representative of a state
• forcing sailors into the Navy
• voting rights
• many ethnicities