Unit 1 Vocabulary- 6th

7. reduction in quantity
9. a large farm where one or more crops are grown by a large number of laborers, then sold for a profit by the plantation owner
10. the rebellion of a ship’s crew against the captain
12. an imagined river passage through North America that Europeans believed would make travel between Europe and Asia faster and more efficient
14. crop crop that is grown to be sold
15. difficult to locate
16. an economic system in which resources and businesses are privately owned and prices are not controlled by the government

1. relying chiefly on agriculture and farming
2. a system of money
3. a chain of islands
4. a system in which a person agrees to work for an employer for a certain amount of time in exchange for training or payment in land or goods at the end of the agreed time period
5. an agreement for self-government signed by the Pilgrims on the ship Mayflower
6. a representative to the legislature in colonial Virginia and Maryland
8. a system of trade for goods and services that uses money rather than barter, or an exchange of goods
11. the cruel and unfair treatment of a group of people
13. to require by law to leave a place