Commerce and Colonization - Units 1 and 2

an economic system based on private ownership of property, a market economy, and the goal of making a profit, or income, from the use of one's property

• capitalism

• mercantilism

• charter

• colony

a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

• capitalism

• mercantilism

• charter

• colony

the theory that a nation's economic strength came from selling more than it bought from other nations

• capitalism

• mercantilism

• charter

• colony

an area settled and ruled by the government of a distant land

• capitalism

• mercantilism

• charter

• colony

a political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them

• representative government

• religious freedom

• plantation

• colonization

the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area

• representative government

• religious freedom

• plantation

• colonization

the right of all individuals to follow their own religious beliefs

• representative government

• religious freedom

• plantation

• colonization

a large estate farmed by many workers

• representative government

• religious freedom

• plantation

• colonization

Plants and animals used and raised for human use or consumption

• representation

• domesticated

• plantation

• colonization

a person who cannot pay money he or she owes

• democrat

• debtor

• colonist

• charter