Vocabulary Review

A country or area controlled by another country, and occupied by settlers from that country.

• Colony

• Climate

• Culture

• Cash Crop

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

• Plantation

• Nature Spirit

• Cash Crop

• Money Food

A formal document that outlined a colony's geographic boundaries and specified how it would be governed

• Plantation

• Charter

• Democratic

• Assembly

Government ruled by the people

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Tyranny

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

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

A large farm, used to grow crops

• Megafarm

• Supermarket

• Climate

• Plantation

The business of capturing, transporting, and selling people as slaves

• Slave Trade

• Columbian Exchange

• Climate

• Plantation

The idea that countries had to compete with each other to become wealthy.

• Slave Trade

• Mercantilism

• Democracy

• Charter

Spanish explorers who tried to conquer new territory and find resources

• Merchants

• Conquistadors

• Pilgrims

• Astronauts

The French wanted this type of fur so they could use it for hats.

• Beaver

• Cow

• Cat

• Moose