Colonization
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- Agrarian Society
- A community that uses farming as the basis for their economic system.
- Cash Crops
- Southern Colonies had them...Consists of tobacco, cotton, and sassafras.
- Netherlands
- Came for mainly Financial purposes, wanted to become a wealthy colony. They also wanted a new beginning. Traded liquor, cloth, firearms, and trinkets. Settled in The Middle Colonies
- English Colonies
- formed the original 13 colonies
- Monopoly
- Sole economic control of business or product.
- Middle Passage
- Voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies.
- Plymouth
- Settled in what is now Massachusetts. Came for religious freedom, traveled on the Mayflower.
- Hudson River
- Location at which both The Netherlands and Sweden settled.
- Economy
- How a settlement or area makes money; Organized economic activity connected with the production, manufacture, or construction of a particular product or range of products
- Primary Source
- someone/something that witnessed the event
- immigration
- The act of people entering into a new country to settle permanently.
- Slave
- someone who is captured and sold into forced servitude
- Staple Crops
- Middle Colonies had them.... Consist of wheat (for bread making, known as the "Bread Basket Colony"), Corn, and Barley.
- Northwest Passage
- a non existent water route through North America that many explorers tried to discover
- Natural Resources
- things found in nature that can be used/exploited to make money and help sustain a society
- Sweden
- Came mainly for the high quality farmland, goods, and trade. Traded mostly furs and brought tobacco up from Europe. Settled in the Middle Colonies
- New England Colonies
- This colonial Region had rocky soil, short growing season and was involved in shipbuilding and other industries
- Alliances
- partnerships formed with another group
- Triangular Trade
- Trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, the West Indies, and West Africa.
- Indentured Servants
- colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
- Jamestown
- Settled in what now is Virginia. Set out to find gold. Unprepared, relied on others for supplies.
- Colony
- a country or area that is ruled by another country
- Secondary Source
- based on what you heard, not what you saw (heard it from a by stander)
- Capital
- money needed to start a company or venture
- Free Enterprise
- Economic system in which there is competition between businesses with little government control.
- French Colonies
- found in the Great Lakes region, traded fur with the Native Americans, got along well with the Natives
- export
- Items that a country sells to other countries.
- Columbian Exchange
- transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa
- import
- Items that a country purchases from other countries.
- migration
- Movement of people from one region to another
- Spanish Colonies
- conquistadors who came to Central America in search of Gold, converted the natives to Christianity, and were in search of personal Glory
- Southern Colonies
- Rich (fertile soil) large plantations, cash crops, used slave labor