Colonial America Vocabulary

These people lived predominately in the South and relied on indentured servants and/or slaves for labor.

• Farmers
• Proprietors
• Large landowners
• Native Americans

These people worked as craftsmen in towns and on plantations.  They lived in small villages and cities.

• Farmers
• Artisans
• Slaves
• Indentured servants

Consisted of men and women who did not have money for passage to the colonies and who agreed to work without pay for the person who paid their passage.

• Slaves
• Large landowners
• Artisans
• Indentured Servants

These people were owned as property for life with no rights.  They were captured in Africa and shipped to the colonies. 

• Slaves
• Indentured servants
• Proprietors
• Artisans

These people worked on the land according to the region.  They relied on family members for labor.

• Indentured servants
• Slaves
• Large landowners
• Farmers

These people were free at the end of their contract.

• Farmers
• Indentured servants
• Proprietors
• Artisans

A farm on which crops are raised by workers (slaves or indentured servants) who live on the farm.

• Mid-Atlantic Colonies
• New England Colonies
• Plantation
• Proprietors

A person who owned and controlled all the land in a colony.

• Proprietor
• Farmer
• Laborer
• Large landowner

They worked as caretakers, house-workers, and homemakers. 

• Slaves
• Indentured servants
• Laborers
• Women

They could not vote.  They had few chances for education.

• Women
• Proprietors
• Large landowners
• Laborers