Colonization Vocabulary Review

Related to farmers or their way of life

• Agrarian

• Cash Crops

• Plantation

• Subsistence Farming

Money for investment

• Capital

• Empire

• Mercantalism

• Representative Government

Crops that are grown for profit instead of for only personal use

• Cash crops

• Agrarian

• Subsistence Farming

• Indentured Servants

A written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony

• Charter

• Legislature

• Proprietary Colony

• Legislature

A form of culture characterized by city trade centers, specialized trade centers, specialized workers, organized forms of government and religion, systems of record keeping and advanced tools

• Civilization

• Colony

• Region

• Exploration

The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Western and Eastern hemispheres

• Columbian Exchange

• Middle Passage

• Indentured Servants

• Plantations

A settlement begun by a group of people in a distant region that is governed by their home country

• Colony

• Colonize

• Proprietary colony

• Social contract

A group of nations ruled by one ruler

• Empire

• Colony

• Toleration

• Mercantalism

Travel for the purpose of discovery

• Exploration

• Colonize

• Civilization

• Subsistence Farming

Body of water on the coast where ships can seek shelter from stormy weather, can be natural or man-made

• Harbor

• Middle Passage

• Region

• Agrarian