Vocabulary for Colonies Unit
Apprentice
Assembly
Banish
Charter
Colony
Debtor
Export: someone who learns a trade by working with a master
Every day, as an apprentice,
John went to work next to
George, the town’s blacksmith, so he could learn how to be a blacksmith. a group of people that meet to decide laws to be kicked out of an area by the government a colony ruled by the colonists
someone who owes money without the means to pay
(verb) sending products out of the country
The assembly met this morning to decide what the law should be on people stealing other people’s crops.
After refusing to switch religions, Paul was banished from the colony.
Rhode Island and
Connecticut were both
Charter Colonies, run totally by the colonists.
James has become a debtor, after traveling to the New
World, he had to borrow money to buy seed to plant his crops.
The New England area
exports many products to
England.

(verb)
Export
(noun)
(noun) items produced for the purpose of sending out of the country
One of the South’s main
exports is rice.
Gentry
Immigration
Import: (verb) upper or ruling class, rich people to move into a new country
(verb) to buy items from other countries
George Washington, as the owner of a very large plantation, was part of the
gentry class.
Hundreds of thousands of people immigrated to the
New World in the 1600s.
New England imports manufactured goods from
Europe.
Import (noun)
Indentured
servant
(noun) something brought into the country
A person who works for a period of time to pay off their debt
One of Europe’s main
imports from New England is lumber.
Adam worked as an
indentured servant for seven years in order to pay off his passage debt.
.

Joint Stock
Company
Persecute
Pilgrim
Proprietary
Colony
Puritan
Quaker a company funded by a group of investors to discriminate against someone because of their belief people who traveled to
America for freedom of religion area of land controlled by an owner a person who wanted to change the Church of
England practices popular name given to a member of the Religious
Society of Friends; known most for their pacifism
Created to begin settling the
New World, the Virginia
Company was a joint-stock
company, which was funded by a group of investors to send supplies and people.
Many people were
persecuted because of their beliefs in England in the
1600s and because of that they decided to move to the
New World.
The Pilgrims arrived in
America on the Mayflower so they could have religious freedom.
Pennsylvania and Delaware were proprietary colonies, controlled by William Penn who was given the land by the king.
Puritans wanted to change the Church of England practices and many of them ended up coming to America because the King would not allow any changes.
The Quakers are a “society of friends” that believe in peace, but do not support the Church of England.

Representative
Government
Royal Colony
Subsistence
farming
Tolerance
Cash crop government where the leaders are selected by majority vote and in turn speak for the masses
In a representative
government the people vote for their leaders that speak for the masses.
. colony that is run by the
King’s or Queen’s officials
(governors) farming just enough produce for your own family’s needs accepting beliefs or practices that are different from your own producing crops for the purpose of selling them for profit
The majority of the original
13 colonies were royal
colonies, or ones that were run by the crown.
Soon after the colonies were settled the King made all the colonies into royal colonies to try to make sure his rule was supreme.
Many farms in the northern area consisted of
subsistence farming, or farming enough to support your family’s needs.
In the New World, people hoped for tolerance and acceptance, which they felt was not present in England.
The south produced an abundance of cash crops, which resulted in a profit.

Triangular
Trade Route trading slaves, rum, sugar, and molasses between New England,
England, Africa, and the
West Indies
The Triangular Trade Route trades slaves, rum, sugar, molasses and more between
New England, England, Africa and the West Indies.
The most notorious leg of the Triangular Trade Route was the Middle Passage, which was the shipment of slaves to North America.