Unit 1 Vocabulary

Plantation

• The study of the Earth’s land, climate, water, plants, and animal life.

• The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.

• Very large farm, in the South, use slaves for labor

• The system that carried manufactured goods, slaves and cash crops between Europe, Africa and the Americas.

Columbian Exchange

• The middle leg of the Triangular Trade route-the forced voyage of Africans to the New World

• The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.

• Hostility or mistreatment of a group or person usually for racial, political or religious reasons.

• Someone who migrates or moves permanently to a new country.

Cash Crop

• a specific crop, grown on a plantation

• The middle leg of the Triangular Trade route-the forced voyage of Africans to the New World

• The system that carried manufactured goods, slaves and cash crops between Europe, Africa and the Americas.

• A system in which people select delegates (representatives) to make laws.

Old World

• Europe, places like France, Spain, and England

• The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.

• The system by which people buy, sell and trade resources in a country.

• The study of the Earth’s land, climate, water, plants, and animal life.

Indentured Servant

• The study of the Earth’s land, climate, water, plants, and animal life.

• Someone who owes money, usually in a large amount

• Someone who migrates or moves permanently to a new country.

• A person who agreed to work for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America

Mercantilism

• A system in which people select delegates (representatives) to make laws.

• Idea that a colony exists only to make money for the home country.  Colonies send raw materials and provide markets for the mother country.

• The system that carried manufactured goods, slaves and cash crops between Europe, Africa and the Americas.

• The system by which people buy, sell and trade resources in a country.

Persecution

• The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.

• Hostility or mistreatment of a group or person usually for racial, political or religious reasons.

• A crop (plant) grown by a farmer to be sold for money rather than for personal use.

• Farming that produces enough food for the family with a small additional amount to trade or sell.

Immigrant

• Someone who owes money, usually in a large amount

• A person who agreed to work for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America

• Someone who migrates or moves permanently to a new country.

• The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.

Debtor

• A person who agreed to work for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America

• Someone who migrates or moves permanently to a new country.

• Someone who owes money, usually in a large amount

• The study of the Earth’s land, climate, water, plants, and animal life.

Cash Crop

• The study of the Earth’s land, climate, water, plants, and animal life.

• A crop (plant) grown by a farmer to be sold for money rather than for personal use.

• Farming that produces enough food for the family with a small additional amount to trade or sell.

• Hostility or mistreatment of a group or person usually for racial, political or religious reasons.