Colonization Vocabulary

A joint stock company during colonial times is...

• a company that sells socks

• a company that invests in adventures in colonizing

• a company that creates stocks

• a company that sells manufactured goods

a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, military force, or other means

• blockade

• nationalism

• imperialism

• coup

The Virginia Company was...

• A band of merry men

• A place people went for personal loans

• A place where people planned vacations

• A joint stock company that helped to find Jamestown

A person who working in exchange for passage to North America

• middle passage

• columbian exchange

• secondary source

• indentured servant

a state that is controlled and protected by another

• lock

• protectorate

• corallary

• annex

an area of land rule by another country

• colony

• export

• industry

• growing season

A contract given to someone to establish a colony

• A stock

• Colony creator

• Joint stock company

• Charter

A system where the mother country benefits from the resources of its colonies

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

• Feudalism

• Socialism

The journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas

• Middle Passage

• Silk Road

• Triangular Trade

• Columbian Exchange

A person who settles in a new colony but remains a subject of the mother country

• Colonist

• Explorer

• Missionary

• Conquistador