Unit 2: Colonial Settlement Vocabulary

A crop, such as sugar, tobacco, or cotton, raised in large quantities and sold for profit

• Cash Crop

• Joint-stock company

• Mercantilism

• Mayflower Compact

1. a formal document issued by the king that outlined a colony’s geographic boundaries, without regard to the area’s Indigenous inhabitants, and specified how it would be governed

• Charter

• Columbian Exchange

• Coureurs de Bois

• English Bill of Rights

1. the process of founding new colonies

• Colonization
• Colony

• Mercantilism

• Charter

1. a new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land

• Colony
• Colonization

• Missionaries

• Joint-stock company

1. the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas

• Columbian Exchange
• Triangle Trade

• Mercantilism

• Great Awakening

1. Spanish soldiers who accompanied ship captains and merchants in the Americas.

• Conquistadors
• Missionaries

• Coureurs de Bois

• Indentured servants

1. French fur trappers who learned many skills from the Indigenous people with whom they worked and lived

• Coureurs de Bois

• Missionaries

• Conquistadors

• Indentured servants

1. an act passed by Parliament in 1689 that limited the monarch’s power by giving certain powers to Parliament and listing specific rights of the citizens

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta
• Mayflower Compact

• Great Awakening

1. a revival of religious feeling and belief among Protestant Christians in the American colonies that began in the 1730s

• The Great Awakening
• Mayflower Compact

• Mercantilism

• Magna Carta

1. an individual who is under contract to work without pay in order to pay back a debt

• Indentured servant

• Slavery

• Mercantilism

• Joint-stock company