Unit 1 Vocabulary

An economic system in which England controls all trade and the mother country makes money off of its colonies raw materials

• Currency

• Economy

• Mercantilism

• Plantation

A large farm, usually in the Southern United States that has slaves as workers

• Mercantilism

• Plantation

• Export

• Compact

A government in which people make rules/guidelines for themselves

• Raw Materials

• Import

• Persecution

• Self-government

The natural environment untouched by humans

• Physical Geography

• Manufacturing

• Import

• Export

To seek and destroy; the desire to harm, imprison or kill someone for an idea or action they believe in

• Middle Passage

• Tolerance

• Persecution

• Compact

To put up with, to not get upset when someone does something bothersome

• Tolerance

• Mercantilism

• Persecution

• Import

Small; a small agreement

• Agriculture

• Plantation

• Export

• Compact

Materials or items that are found in nature and not changed by humans (vegetables, animal skins etc)

• Religious Dissenter

• Region

• Raw Materials

• Export

A person who disagrees with the religion of their community

• Monarchy

• Religious Dissenter

• Compact

• Middle Passage

farming

• Transcontinental Trade

• Religious Dissenter

• Compact

• Agriculture