Unit 1 & 2 vocab

traveling to new territories for the purpose of discovery.

• exploration

• colonization

• charter

• Transatlantic slave trade

state sponsored settlement of people to new territories.

• agrarian

• colonization

• exploration

• plantations

economic policy where colonies serve as a source of raw materials to increase the wealth and maintain a favorable balance of trade for the “mother” country.

• region

• charter

• mercantilism

• harbors

Another definition for ____________ is "Moe money = Moe Power

• harbors

• mercantilism

• parliament

• cash crops

political system where policies are created by representatives selected

by the people.

• parliament

• Columbian Exchange

• representative government

• region

a contract given to someone to establish a colony.

• charter

• region

• harbors

• colonization

large agricultural enterprise where crops are grown for sale.

• cash crops

• plantations

• agrarian

• subsistence farming

form of farming in which nearly all of the crops or livestock raised are used to maintain the farmer and the farmer’s family.

• cash crops

• plantations

• agrarian

• subsistence farming

a geographic area that share similar characteristics.

• Transatlantic slave trade

• plantations

• region

• colonization

a place where ships may shelter (be kept).

• harbors

• plantations

• charter

• subsistence farming