Vocab #1

a crop, such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton, raised in large quantities and sold for profit

• Charter

• Cash Crop

• Economy

• Mercantilism

Charter

• ruled by the people. In a democracy, citizens elect representatives to make and carry out laws.

• a formal document issued by the king that outlined a colony's geographic boundaries and specified how it would be governed

• an economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies

Mayflower Compact

• an agreement that Pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the Americas

• Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established.

• the way a society organizes the manufacture and exchange of things of value, such as money, food, products, and services

Mercantilism

• an economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies

• the business of capturing, transporting, and selling people as slaves

• a crop, such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton, raised in large quantities and sold for profit

slave trade

• the business of capturing, transporting, and selling people as slaves

• the way a society organizes the manufacture and exchange of things of value, such as money, food, products, and services

• unfair or abusive treatment toward a person or group of people based on religious beliefs

economy

• the way a society organizes the manufacture and exchange of things of value, such as money, food, products, and services

• an economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies

• a formal document issued by the king that outlined a colony's geographic boundaries and specified how it would be governed

The Great Awakening

• Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established.

• unfair or abusive treatment toward a person or group of people based on religious beliefs

• the way a society organizes the manufacture and exchange of things of value, such as money, food, products, and services

religious persecution

• unfair or abusive treatment toward a person or group of people based on religious beliefs

• Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established.

• an agreement that Pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the Americas

New England Colonies

• The term for the colonies of Massachusetts bay, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire

• Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

• New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware

Southern Colonies

• The term for the colonies of Massachusetts bay, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire

• Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

• New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware