6th grade Bayou Bridges unit 1 lesson 2 voc. quiz

a crop that is grown to be sold

• indentured

• capitalism

• cash crop

• burgess

a system in which a worker 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

Example: Through the system of indentured servitude, some people leaving for America were given free passage if they agreed to work with no pay when they arrived.

• cash crop

• indentured servitude

• burgesses

• capitalism

a representative to the legislature in colonial Virginia and Maryland

• cash crop

• burgess

• indentured servitude

• capitalism

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

• cash crop

• indentured servitude

• capitalism

• burgess

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

exp: As the demand for cash crops grew, enslaved Africans were brought to the colonies to work on large plantations.

• plantation

• persecution

• banish

• Mayflower

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

• plantation

• banish

• persecution

• Mayflower Compact

the cruel and unfair treatment of a group of people

• plantation

• Mayflower compact

• banish

• persecution

A ship that brought the pilgrims to start the Plymouth Colony

• The Mayflower

• The burgess

• Pocahontas

• The black pearl

Where did the pilgrims start their colony?

• Louisiana

• Massachusetts

• Virginia

• Pennsylvania

What was the Virginia company, What was their goal?