Colonization

to travel for the purpose of discovery

• Colonization

• Exploration

a contract given to someone permission and rules to establish a colony

• Charter

• Permission slip

state sponsored settlement of people to new territories

• city-states

• Colonization

A document which spells out the principles by which a government rules and the fundamental laws that govern a society.

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in Virginia in 1607.

• Jamestown

• Roanoke

A sheltered place along a shoreline where ships anchor safely.

• peninsula

• harbor

crops such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton, raised in large quantities in order to be sold for profit

• subsistence farming

• cash crops

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world

• The Columbian Exchange

• World Markets

large agricultural enterprise where crops are grown for sale

• Plantations

• villages

a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

• self-government

• democracy