Unit 1 Vocab

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The original people or things that belong to a place.

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Indigenous

Front

An area controlled by another country, often unjustly taking land.

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Colony

Front

A person who settles in a colony.

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Colonist

Front

The buying and selling of goods and services.

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Trade

Front

The practice of owning people as property.

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Slavery

Front

A large farm that grows crops for profit, often using slave labor in the past.

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Plantation

Front

Materials or things that are valuable or useful.

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Resources

Front

An economic system where countries tried to get wealth and power by controlling trade and keeping more exports than imports.

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Mercantilism

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The part of the Atlantic slave trade where enslaved Africans were forced to travel across the ocean to the Americas under harsh and deadly conditions.

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Middle Passage

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A person who agreed to work for a certain number of years without pay in exchange for a trip to the American colonies.

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Indentured Servant