Vocabulary: Colonization Unit (2026)

a movement that emphasized science and reason as guides to help see the world more clearly

• Quakers

• English Bill of Rights

• Charter

• Enlightenment

Immigrants who received passage to America in exchange for a fixed term of labor

• English Bill of Rights

• Enlightenment

• Quakers

• Indentured Servants

the lawmaking body of British government

• subsistence farming

• Great Awakening

• Parliament

• cash crop

(1215) a charter of liberties (freedoms) that King John of England was forced to sign; it made the king obey the same laws as the citizens of his kingdom

• cash crop

• Magna Carta

• Triangular Trade

• Mayflower Compact

English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preached a doctrine of pacificism, inner divinity, and social equity, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania

• Indentured Servants

• Quakers

• Enlightenment

• Charter

a power or privilege that belongs to people as citizens that cannot be taken away by the government

• Right

• Parliament

• Mayflower Compact

• cash crop

1689 document that gave England a government based on a system of laws and a freely elected parliament

• Enlightenment

• Charter

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

farm crop raised to be sold for money

• cash crop

• Parliament

• Mayflower Compact

• subsistence farming

A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area and provides certain rights to the settlers

• Enlightenment

• Quakers

• Charter

• English Bill of Rights

A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa

• Triangular Trade

• subsistence farming

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta