Days 1-5 Colonization Unit Vocabulary

A product sent to another country and sold

• colony

• export

• industry

• growing season

An area of land ruled by another country

• colony

• export

• industry

• growing season

A product brought into one country from another

• apprentice

• artisan

• import

• laborer

The business of buying or selling goods on a large scale is called _____________.

• Economy

• Cash Crops

• Mercantilism

• Commerce

A person who agrees to work for 4-7 years in exchange for passage to the colonies.

• Proprietor

• Indentured Servant

• Slave

• Investor

Tobacco and Cotton are examples of this because it is grown and sold for a profit.

• slavery

• Southern Colonies

• plantation

• cash crop

The economic policy that made the "mother country" rich by not letting colonies trade with anyone else was known as...

• Salutary Neglect

• Free Market System

• Capitalism

• Mercantilism

Wood, water, bricks, corn - are all from the earth. These are called: ____________.

• finished products
• mercantilism
• plants
• raw materials

Imperialism is __________.

• when a powerful country uses its resources to help a weaker country

• when a weaker country invites a powerful country to help it industrialize

• when a powerful country takes control of territories to expand its power and influence.

• when weak countries join together to fight a strong country

Who were the first enslaved people in North America?

• The Colonists

• Africans

• Mexicans

• Indigenous Peoples