Unit 1- Vocab Fast and Curious

Traveling to new territories for the purpose of discovery

• Exploration

• Colonization

• Migration

• Plantations

State sponsored settlement of people to new territories  

• Mercantilism

• Harbor

• Colonization

• Migration

Economic policy where colonies serve as a source of raw materials to increase the wealth and maintain a favorable balance of trade for the “mother” country 

• Colonization

• Colony

• Plantation

• Mercantilism

Political system where policies are created by representatives selected by the people

• Mercantilism

• Dictatorship

• Representative government

• Democracy

A contract given to someone to establish a colony  

• Charter

• Mercantilism

• Colonization

• Social Contract

Large agricultural enterprise where crops are grown for sale

• Cash Crops

• Plantations

• Subsistence Farming

• Agrarian

A geographic area that shares similar characteristics

• Continent

• Ethnicity

• Region

• Colony

A part of a body of water protected and deep enough to furnish anchorage 

• Dock

• England

• Caribbean

• Harbor

A readily salable crop (such as cotton or tobacco) produced or gathered primarily for market

• Plantation

• Subsistence farming

• Agrarian

• Cash crop

An assemblage of the nobility, clergy, and commons called together by the British sovereign as the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom

• Colonialism

• Parliament

• Mercantilism

• Social contract