5th Grade - Early Settlements Vocab

A settlement in a new land that is ruled by a faraway country.

• Colony

• Borderlands

• Plantation

• Slavery

Land located on or near a boundary.

• Plantation

• Borderlands

• Slavery

• Mission

A large farm or estate where crops are raised.

• Slavery

• Mission

• Plantation

• Raw Material

The practice of treating people as property and forcing them to work against their will.

• mission

• cash crop

• indentured servant

• Slavery

A religious settlement built in a foreign land.

• mission

• raw material

• cash crop

• indentured servant

A natural component used to manufacture something.

• cash crop

• raw material

• indentured servant

• legislature

A plant grown to be sold rather than used by the farmer.

• indentured servant

• legislature

• cash crop

• governor

A person legally bound to work for someone for a set length of time.

• slavery

• legislature

• governor

• indentured servant

A group of people who make laws for their state or country.

• Legislature

• Governor

• Established church

• Pilgrim

A public official who is put in charge of a colony or a territory.

• Established church

• Governor

• Pilgrim

• Self-government