The Colonies and Their Founding/ Jamestown Weeks 7/8

legal document given by the king of England

• plantation

• charter

• company

• cash crop

investors who provided ships, tools, food, water, and protection for the people who moved to America

• plantation

• cash crop

• charter

• company

crops grown to be sold for financial gain

• cash crop

• charter

• company

• plantation

a large farm

• charter

• cash crop

• plantation

• company

unusable water source as a mixture of salt and fresh water

• plantation

• oligarchy

• brackish

• junta

a government in which authority rests with a group of men

• junta

• House of Burgesses

• oligarchy

• representative democracy

a government that relies on strict military rules and consequences; one man has authority

• representative democracy

• junta

• oligarchy

• House of Burgesses

a legislature of white property-owning men who chose representatives to make laws for them in assembly meetings

• representative demoncracy

• House of Burgesses

• oligarchy

• junta

rule of law is established and every person becomes accountable in court

• junta

• oligarchy

• representative democracy

• House of Burgesses