13 Colonies Vocab

a crop grown for sale rather than for use by farmers

• backcountry

• commodity

• cash crop

• neutrality

a written grant establishing an institution and detailing members' rights and privileges

• charter

• indentured servant

• cash crop

• joint stock company

a person under contract to work, usually without pay, in exchange for free passage to the colonies

• charter

• indentured servant

• traitor

• joint stock company

a person who betrays his or her own people, nation, or cause

• charter

• indentured servant

• traitor

• joint stock company

a person who disagrees with a majority belief or position

• separatists

• indentured servant

• traitor

• dissenter

a person who wished to leave the Church of England

• separatists

• banished

• traitor

• dissenter

a company whose shareholders own stock in the company

• charter

• indentured servant

• traitor

• joint stock company

actions that involve the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services

• natural resource

• commodity

• cash crop

• economic activity

material or substance found in nature that can be used to sustain a society such as water, minerals, etc

• natural resource

• commodity

• provisions

• economic activity

the basic substances and elements used to make products

• neutrality

• raw materials

• provisions

• conformity