U.S. History Vocab #1

An economic policy where colonies serve as a source of raw materials. Increases the wealth and maintains a favorable balance of trade for the "mother" country.

• Charter

• Mercantilism

• House of Burgesses

• Social Contract

The year of the first permanent English settlement

• 1619

• 1607

• 1620

• 1776

Materials that have not been made into something. They are in their original forms.

• Natural Resource

• Finished Goods

• Raw Materials

• Mercantilism

A political system where policies created by the will and the voice of the people

• Representative Government

• Sovereign

• Protestant Reformation

• Charter

Someone who buys and sells goods especially in large amounts

• Missionaries

• Protestants

• Merchants

• Indentured Servants

A document that gives someone permission or the right to start a colony

• Mercantilism

• Sovereign

• Charter

• Passport

Practice of farming, included cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products

• Plantations

• Agriculture

• Mercantilism

• Indentured Servants

The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area

• Colonization

• Exploration

• Self Government

• Social Contract

A resource that is found in nature and used by people

• Indentured Servant

• Natural Resource

• Finished Goods

• Raw Materials

Large agriculture enterprise where crops are grown for sale

• Indentured Servants

• Merchants

• Colonization

• Plantations