U.S. History Vocab #1

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

An agreement between the ruler and the ruled

• Obedience

• Cultivate

• Social Contract

• Market

Arrival of the Pilgrims and signing of the Mayflower Compact. It represented the start of self-government in the colonies

• 1607

• 1619

• 1620

• 1776

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

• Representative Government

• Sovereign

• Protestant Reformation

• Charter

Government of a country by it's own people

• Self Government

• Social Contract

• Sovereign

• Charter

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

• Colonization

• Exploration

• Self Government

• Social Contract

The first elected representatives assembly in North America elected by the people in which they made laws and agreed to protect individual rights of the people

• Representative Government

• House of Burgesses

• Sovereignty

• U.S. Congress

A resource that is found in nature and used by people

• Indentured Servant

• Natural Resource

• Finished Goods

• Raw Materials

People who agree to work for a certain number of years for no pay; in exchange their employers paid for their voyage

• Merchants

• Slaves

• Protestants

• Indentured Servants

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

• Natural Resource

• Finished Goods

• Raw Materials

• Mercantilism