a group of people who leave their native country to form a settlement in a new land, ruled by and connected to the parent nation

• Colony
• Tribe
• Community
• Society

economic system in which nations increase wealth/ power by obtaining gold & silver and a favorable balance of trade

• Capitalism
• Mercantilism
• Socialism
• Communism

middle leg of the triangular trade route that brought captured Africans into slavery

• The Middle Passage
• The Atlantic Passage
• The Slave Route
• The African Passage

a person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America

• Indentured servant
• Slave
• Convict
• Immigrant

created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies

• House of Burgesses

• Massachusetts Bay Colony
• New England Confederation
• Mayflower Compact

revolt against colonial authority in Jamestown by frontier settlers, resulting in the burning of Jamestown in 1676

• Bacon's Rebellion
• King Philip's War
• Pueblo Revolt
• Stono Rebellion

transatlantic system of trade between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies and the colonies in North America

• Triangular Trade
• Square Trade
• Circular Trade
• Middle Passage

a written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony

• Charter
• Constitution
• Treaty
• Ordinance