8thgrade History Chapter 4
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- charter colony
- colony established by a group of settlers who had been given a formal document allowing them to settle
- overseer
- a person who supervisesa large operation or its workers
- mercantilism
- the theory that a state's or nation's power depended on its wealth
- alliance
- a close association of nations or other ggroups formed to advance common interests or causes
- speculator
- a person who risk money in order to make a large profit
- proprietary colony
- colony run by individuals or groups to whom land was given
- smuggling
- trading illegally with other nations
- cash crop
- farm crop raised to be sold for money
- Tide water
- a region of flat, low-lying plainsalong the seacoast
- backcountry
- a region of hills and forest west of the Tidewater
- Iroquis Confederacy
- a powerful group of Natie Americans in the eastern part of the United States made up of five nations: the Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, and the Oneida
- diversity
- variety or difference
- subsistence farming
- farming in which only enough food to feed one's family is produced
- literacy
- the ability to read and write
- apprentice
- assistant who is assigned to learn the trade of a skkilled craftsman
- royal colony
- colony run by a governor and a council appionted by the king or queen
- triangular trade
- a trade route that exchanged goods between the West Indies, the American coloies, and West Africa
- export
- to sell goods abroad
- militia
- a group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies