Unit 1 Colonial Era Vocabulary

Crops, such as cotton or tobacco, raised in large quantities in order to be sold for profit.

• Cash Crop

• Export

• Import

a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power, by which an institution is created and its rights and privileges defined.

• Mercantilism

• Charter

• Import

to bring (goods or services) into a country from abroad for sale

• Import

• Export

To send (goods or services) out of a country

• Import

• Export

system in which a country attempts to amass wealth through trade with other countries

• Free Enterprise

• Mercantilism

• Atlantic Triangular Trade

a pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England rum and then traded in the West Indies for sugar or molasses, which was brought back to New England to be manufactured into rum

• Cash Crop

• Charter

• Atlantic Triangular Trade

economy based on agricultural mass production, usually of a few commodity crops grown on large farms called plantations.

• Plantation System

• Protestant Reformation

• Mercantilism

16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe

• Mercantilism

• Plantation System

• Protestant Reformation

An electoral system where citizens vote to elect people to represent their interests and concerns

• Free Enterprise

• Representative Government

• House of Burgesses

the lower house of the colonial Virginia legislature

• House of Burgesses

• Plantation System

• Free Enterprise