Social Studies Vocabulary The exploration of North America p. 2

to require by law to leave a place

• banish

• burgess

• capitalism

• cash crop

a representative to the legislature in colonial Virginia and Maryland

• banish

• burgess

• capitalism

• cash crop

an economic system in which resources and businesses are privately owned and prices are not controlled by the government

• banish

• burgess

• capitalism

• cash crop

a crop that is grown to be sold

• banish

• burgess

• capitalism

• cash crop

A system in which a person agrees to work for an employer for a certain amount of time in exchange for training or payment in land or goods at the end of the agreed time period

• indentured servitude

• Mayflower Compact

• monetary economy

• persecution

An agreement for self-government signed by the Pilgrims on the ship Mayflower

• indentured servitude

• Mayflower Compact

• monetary economy

• persecution

a system of trade for goods and services that uses money rather than barter or an exchange of goods

• indentured servitude

• Mayflower Compact

• monetary economy

• persecution

the cruel and unfair treatment of a group of people

• indentured servitude

• Mayflower Compact

• monetary economy

• persecution

a large farm where one or more crops are grown by a large number of laborers, then sold for a profit by the plantation owner

• indentured servitude

• Mayflower Compact

• monetary economy

• persecution

Contract or document that granted the legal right to exist to colonies in the New World

• charter

• Mayflower Compact

• monetary economy

• persecution