Unit 4: Early Colonies

Land ruled by another country.

• Colony

• Plantations

• Self-government

• Cash Crop

A large farm.

• Colony

• Plantations

• Slavery

• Cash Crop

The practice of holding people against their will and making them work without pay.

• Pilgrim

• Plantations

• Slavery

• Cash Crop

A crop people grow to sell.

• Profit

• Plantations

• Compact

• Cash Crop

A person who makes a journey for religious reasons.

• Profit

• Colony

• Pilgrim

• Compact

A system of government in which people make their own laws.

• Profit

• Self-Government

• Pilgrim

• Compact

The focus on places and the people who live in them.

• Geography

• Political

• Economic

• Social

The way people make and use goods and money.

• Geography

• Political

• Economic

• Social

How people living in groups make decisions to govern themselves.

• Geography

• Political

• Economic

• Social

The type of people who live within a group or area.

• Geography

• Political

• Economic

• Social