Unit 1 Vocab

An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language

• Migrate

• Colombian exchange

• Cash crop

• Culture region

A person who travels to a territory or community in order to make converts to his or her religion

• Missionaries

• Cash Crop

• Great awakening

• Environment

The business of capturing, transporting, and selling people as slaves

• Colony

• Slave trade

• English bill of Rights

• Charter

All of the physical surroundings in a place, including land, water, animals, plants, and climate

• Missionaries

• Cash Crop

• Great awakening

• Environment

To move from one place and establish a home in a new place. A move of a large number of people is called a migration, and the people who move are called migrants

• Slavery

• Migrate

• Conquistador

• Colony

A revival of religious feeling and belief in the American colonies that began in 1730’s

• Missionaries

• Cash Crop

• Great awakening

• Environment

The treatment of people as property.

• Slavery

• Coureurs de bois

• Magna Carta

• Rights

Powers or privileges that belong to people as citizens and that cannot or should not be taken away by the government

• Parliament

• Rights

• Great awakening

• Mercantilism

An agreement that pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the Americas

• Mayflower compact

• Magna Carta

• Slavery

• Columbian Exchange

French fur trappers who learned many skills from American Indians with whom they worked and lived

• Parliament

• Culture region

• Coureurs de bois

• Mercantilism