8th Grade: Unit 2 Vocab

Elected representative to an assembly

• Burgess

• Debtor

• Diversity

• Patroon

A crop raised for sale in markets

• Charter

• Cash Crop

• Triangular Trade

• Headright

A document granting the holder the right to settle a colony

• Burgess

• Subsistence Farming

• Charter

• Mercantilism

The democratic ideas, practices, and values that are at the heart of citizenship in a free society

• Slave Code

• Indentured Servant

• Pacifists

• Civic Virtue

A detailed written plan for a government; a list of basic laws that support a government

• Constitution

• Slave Code

• Triangular Trade

• Cash Crop

Person or country that owes money

• Pacifists

• Debtor

• Cash Crop

• Slave Code

Variety, such as of ethnic or national groups

• Charter

• Patroon

• Diversity

• Subsistence Farming

A 50-acre grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way

• Debtor

• Civic Virtue

• Triangular Trade

• Headright

Laborer who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America

• Indentured Servant

• Mercantilism

• Constitution

• Burgess

An economic theory that a nation’s power depends on its ability to increase wealth by increasing exports and receiving precious metals

• Triangular Trade

• Mercantilism

• Constitution

• Cash Crop