Colonization Vocabulary

1. – society (people living together in a community) or its organizations
5. – a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
9. - refusal to accept authority (whoever is in charge).
10. – crops that are produced (grown) that are used in foods such as bread
12. – the earth’s surface (dirt) FERTILE SOIL – necessary for producing cash crops
13. – something you refuse to allow
15. – buying and selling goods and services
17. a store owner or seller - A person who trades goods
20. – the practice of farming
21. – person who is in charge of making the slaves work
22. – a safe place
24. – to allow something you don’t necessarily agree with to happen
26. – what is being sold or traded
29. – to work
30. – to make richer, wealthier

2. – the weather in a location averaged over a long period of time
3. – a formal decision, law
4. - the ceremonies and prayers of a religion
6. – large farm where cash crops are worked by slaves
7. – a group of people that settle far from home, but keep ties with their homeland (mother country)
8. – a person that owes money (in England they put people who didn’t pay their debts into prison)
11. – paper with writing that has information
12. (as in the Pilgrims who were Separatists) – to be apart
14. – a geographic region that grows the grains made for bread making. The Middle Colonies.
16. – two or more things that are very different from one another
18. – cut and prepare forest timber (wood) for sale
19. (as in purifying the Church of England) – to make it clean
23. (farming) - make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock
25. activity – production (making) and distribution (supplying and selling) goods and services (doing work for someone) Example: Earning a living
27. crop – a crop grown by a farmer to be sold for money rather than for personal use.
28. (forestry) - a large area of trees