Early America Key Terms

3. The process of condemning an individual to slavery
4. A group of people who were native to America before European arrival
5. The first successful English colony in America
8. Large farms that produce large amounts of cash crops
9. A popular crop cultivated by Native Americans
10. The first official European to land in the Americas.
12. Primary cash crop for Jamestown
15. a country’s ultimate goal was self-sufficiency and that all countries were in a competition to acquire the most gold and silver
16. Grown primarily for sale rather than for the farmer’s own use.
17. Another term to refer to people who are native to a region
18. Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
19. A lost English colony, in which the colonist dispeared

1. Dutch colony the settled in the New York Area, built on fur-trapping.
2. Native Americans began to settle into ________ after the introduction of agriculture
6. economy An economy that is primarily based on agriculture and cash crops
7. A collection of earthworks that were created by a Native community in southern Ohio
11. fled from England to escape religious persecution. In 1620, this small group of families founded the Plymouth Colony
13. men and women who signed a contract by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation, food, clothing, and shelter.
14. William Penn, the governor and leader of the Quaker movement, had big plans for his colony—a government run on principles of equality, cooperation, and religious toleration.