Colonial Vocabulary

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

• Colony

• Charter

• Cash Crop

• Civilization

Combining raw materials and processed goods into finished products

• manufacturing

• triangle trade

• intolerant

• charter

To treat someone harshly because of that person's beliefs or practices:

• toleration

• interference

• persecute

• dissent

A laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America

• Slave

• Indentured Servant

• Pacifist

• Charter

3 sided trade route between the 13 Colonies, the West Indies, and Africa; included the slave trade

• mercantilism

• charter

• triangular trade

• cash crop

A large farm on which crops are raised by workers who live on the farm. 

• debtor
• labroer
• plantation
• aprentice

Goods brought in from other countries

• export

• import

• mercantilism

• triangle trade

Goods sold to other countries

• export

• import

• mercantilism

• triangle trade

A person or country that owes money

• plantation

• charter

• mercantilism

• debtor

A person who makes money by selling goods.

• commerce

• merchant

• charter

• joint stock company