Unit 1 Vocabulary

A crop sold for money at market.

• Charter

• Colony

• Cash Crop

A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company.

• Charter

• Debtor

• Legislature

An area settled and ruled by the government of a distant land.

• Colony

• Plantation

• Slave Code

A person who cannot pay money he or she owes.

• Cash Crop

• Debtor

• Representative Government

A group of people who have power to make laws.

• Legislature

• Colony

• Plantation

A large estate farmed by many workers.

• Debtor

• Charter

• Plantation

A political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.

• Representative Government

• Debtor

• Cash Crop

Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights.

• Slave Codes

• Plantation

• Colony

Cash Crop

• A crop sold for money at market.

• A group of people who have power to make laws.

• An area settled and ruled by the government of a distant land.

Colony

• A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company.

• An area settled and ruled by the government of a distant land.

• A political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.