Things that attract people to a certain location

• push factor

• pull factor

Things that cause people to move away from a certain location.

• Push factor

• pull factor

A small community of people living in a new place

• Settlement

• Colony

An area of land controlled by another country

• colony

• settlement

• plantation

• fort

A strong building or group of buildings where soldiers live

• fort

• settlement

• colony

• plantation

A large farm on which crops are raised by workers who live on the farm

• plantation

• cash crop

• Jamestown

• indentured servant

The joint-stock company that started the settlement of Jamestown

• Virginia Company

• Jamestown

• House of Burgesses

• charter

A business owned by a group of people who will share in the profits and losses

• Virgina Company

• joint-stock company

• proprietor

• legislature

Someone who agreed to work for a number of years in exchange for the cost of a voyage to North America

• colonist

• settler

• indentured servant

• sailor

A document giving permission to a person or group to do something

• legislation

• discrimination

• charter

• cash crop