Colonization Vocabulary

to join or add territory

• prowess

• imperialism

• annex

• coup

Colony with a single owner

• proprietary colony

• empire

• parliament

• plantation

Who were the Salzburgers?

• A group of German-speaking Protestant colonists, founded the town of Ebenezer in what is now Effingham County. Arriving in 1734, the group received support from King George II of England and the Georgia Trustees after they were expelled from their home.

• They were a collection of Germanic peoples, whose name was first mentioned in 3rd century Roman sources, associated with tribes on the Lower and Middle Rhine, on the edge of the Roman Empire.

• The group of people that made great hamburgers from bison.

• A group of people who were always dissatisfied and rebellious.

What is colonization?

• Going to a new place

• A vacation

• A practice from Portugal

• State sponsored settlement of people to new territories

The first colony establishment by the Virginia Company for the purpose of finding gold.

• New Hampshire

• Jamestown

• Massachusetts

• Plymouth

This is a group sent to carry on religious work during colonization.

• Artisan

• Garrison

• Mission

• Charter

Written contract issued by the government giving permission to establish a colony

• migration

• colony

• civilization

• charter

A settlement begun by a group of people in a distant region governed by home country

• harbors

• migration

• colony

• charter

The massive movement of people, crops, animals, diseases, and ideas between the “Old World” and the “New World” during European exploration and colonization.

• The Columbian Exchange

• Triangle Trade

• The Middle Passage

• Shipping

A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

• garrison

• colony

• colonization

• mission