USHV2-Colonial America Vocab

A partnership; system in which countries agree to defend each other

• Apprentice

• Alliance

• Immigration

• Import

A person who learns a trade from a skilled craftsperson

• Apprentice

• Cash crop

• Export

• Militia

A military force made of ordinary citizens who are trained to fight in emergencies

• Militia

• Representative government

• Slave code

• Subsistence farming

A crop raised for sale in markets

• Cash crop

• Export

• Import

• Mercantilism

To sell goods to other countries; a good made in one country and then sold to another

• Export

• Immigration

• Militia

• Representative government

The permanent movement of people into a country from other countries

• Immigration

• Import

• Slave code

• Subsistence farming

To bring in goods from foreign countries

• Import

• Triangular trade

• Subsistence farming

• Slave code

An economic theory that a nation's power depends on its ability to increase wealth by increasing exports and receiving precious metals

• Mercantilism

• Militia

• Representative government

• Apprentice

A military force made of ordinary citizens who are trained to fight in emergencies

• Militia

• Alliance

• Export

• Apprentice

A system in which citizens elect a smaller group to make laws and conduct government on their behalf

• Representative government

• Slave code

• Mercantilism

• Immigration