Early Settlements Vocab EAHC

the group of people in government with the power to make laws

• legislature

• Supreme Court

• colony

• committee

First permanent English settlement established in Virginia in 1607

• Plymouth

• Boston

• St. Augustine

• Jamestown

the first Massachusetts colony was founded by a group of mostly English Separatists in 1620

• Plymouth

• Boston

• St. Augustine

• Jamestown

the first document agreeing to an organized self-government. It was created in 1620 at the Plymouth Colony.

• Magna Carta

• Declaration of Independence

• Mayflower Compact

• US Constitution

a representative democracy run by 

a Grand Council made up of representatives from each of the tribes

• Legislature

• Senate

• House of Representatives

• Iroquois Confederacy

an area that is controlled by, or belongs to, a country and is usually far away from it

• sphere of influence

• protectorate

• colony

• state

a document issued by a King/Queen that gives rights to a person or group

• Charter

• Grant

• Colonization

• Declaration

crops grown to sell for a profit (rather than feed people of a colony)

Ex: tobacco, rice, indigo, cotton

• Subsistence farming

• Cash crops

• independent farms

• community farms

someone who was legally owned by another person and was forced to work for that person without pay

• Indentured servant

• cavalier

• enslaved person

• serf

people who signed contracts by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter

• indentured servant

• cavalier

• enslaved person

• serf