Unit 1 Colonization Vocabulary

Taking over someone else's land and claiming it for yourself and your country

• colonization

• colonist

• colony

• Colonizer

A person who takes over and settles land in a different place

• colonist

• colonize

• colony

• conoly

Land that people claim for themselves and their country

• colonist

• colony

• colonize

• colonizatory

An economic system in which a country takes over land in a different place and uses their resources to make money for themselves

• mercantilism

• economy

• merchants

• trade

Making money using the resources of land taken from other people

• mercantilism

• capitalism

• democracy

• republic

Choosing people to represent you and make decisions for you in the government

• representative government

• monarchy

• direct democracy

• dictatorship

Official permission granted by the king to start a colony in America

• charter

• constitution

• treaty

• article

If you want to start a colony in America you need to get a _________ from the king of England

• charter

• document

• treaty

• constitution

A large area of land that shares similar characteristics

• region

• state

• colony

• country

There were 3 _____________ in the English colonies in America

• regions

• charters

• colonists

• mercantilism