Unit 1 Colonial Settlement Vocabulary, 24-25

Investors buy shares in a company for a share in their profits

• Indentured Servant

• Charter

• Joint Stock Company

• Backcountry

Gives the owner the right to organize settlements in an area.

• Indentured Servant

• Burgesses

• Salutary Neglect

• Charter

Economy where mother country establishes colonies as a source of raw materials and markets.

• Joint Stock Company

• Salutary Neglect

• Mercantilism

• Colony

The acceptance of different beliefs.

• Tolerance

• Social

• Mayflower Compact

• Representative Government

A trade route between the West Indies, the American colonies, and West Africa.

• Triangular Trade

• Mercantilism

• Middle Passage

• Economic

A crop that could easily be sold in markets for money.

• Subsistence Farming

• Cash crops

• Plantation

• Export

Persecute

• to follow a leader who has new ideas

• to treat someone kindly

• to treat someone unfairly because of that person's beliefs or customs

• to accept others' beliefs and customs

To sail all the way around the world.

• Circumnavigate

• Migrate

• Northwest Passage

• Charter

A large farm.

• Plantation

• Subsistence Farming

• Cash Crop

• Northwest Passage

A movement for religious reform

• Reformation

• Protestantism

• Persecute

• Tolerance