Colonial America Vocab

an area with similar geographic features, climate and ways of life

• Colony

• Region

• Economy

• Jamestown

New community set up in a new "place"

• Settlement

• Region

• Resources

• Geography

Land ruled by a distant country, wanted for resources and new markets to sell goods

• colony

• region

• specialization

• religious persectution

How people use resources to make goods and services

• economy

• settlement

• colony

• natural resources

Land ruled by a distant country

• colony

• region

• climate

• economy

To be good at making something

• specialization

• colony

• region

• settlement

things used to fulfill needs

• specialization

• colonist

• resources

• colony

gifts from nature such as fertile soil, fresh water, forests etc.

• Human Resources

• Natural Resources

• Capital Resources

• Settlement

People making goods and services

• water resources

• natural resources

• human resources

• religious persectution

to be mistreated because of religious beliefs

• region

• colony

• trade

• religious persecution