01 Unit 1 Week #3 Vocabulary: Life In the English Colonies

Farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent by cash or crops.

• Tenant farming

• Subsistence farming

• Export

• Import

Farming in which only enough food to feed one's family is produced.

• Tenant farming

• Plantation

• Subsistence farming

• Triangular Trade

First hand information about people or events.

• Secondary Source

• Hear Say

• Alliance

• Primary source

To sell goods abroad

• Import

• Export

To buy goods from foreign markets.

• Import

• Export

Colony run by a government and a council appointed by the king or queen.

• Proprietary Colony

• Royal colony

• Charter Colony

A group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies.

• Militia

• Alliance

• Culture

• The (First) Great Awakening

A close association of nations or other groups, formed to advance common interests or causes

• Militia

• Region

• Alliance

• The Middle Passage

Segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10-12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.

• Mercantilism

• Transatlantic slave trade

• Missionary

• Sequencing

An order of occurrence in which events happen.

• Primary source

• Sequencing

• Timeline

• Secondary Source