Exploration and Colonization

Unit 1Vocabulary

Words to Define

exploration Relative chronology

Puritans

virtue Joint stock company

Cash crops

colonize Push pull factors Pilgrims

religious Triangular trade

charter Representative Government

Quaker

Contemporary Indentures servant Tenant farming

mercantilism ethnicity toleration

Human geography debtor Northwest Passage

era emigrant persecute

Physical Geography Subsistence farming

plantation

Absolute chronology

separatist Settlement

Exploration

Travel for the purpose of discovery.

ColonizeA group of people leave their native country to settle in a new land, but are still connected with the parent nation.

Charter

A contract given to someone to establish a colony.

Mercantilism

A trade economy between the mother country and the colonies. An exchange of raw goods for finished products, where the mother country reaped more benefits.

Era

A fixed point in time from which a series of years is reckoned.

Absolute Chronology

Exact datesThe sequence of events that provide exact information regarding dates.

Relative Chronology

Relative chronology is the sequence of events in relation to other event.

Push Factor/Pull Factor

Push factors are things that push people away from a country or location. Pull factors are things that draw them to another country or location. Bel-air

West Philadelphia

Representative Government

In a representative government, power is held by the people and exercised through the efforts of representatives elected by those people.

Ethnicity

The national or cultural heritage to which one belongs.

Emigrant

A person who leaves a country or region to live elsewhere.

Separatists

Protestant who, during the 1600,s wanted to leave the Anglican Church in order to found their own churches.

Puritans

Protestants who, during the 1600’s ,wanted to reform the Anglican Churches.

Pilgrims

Separatists who journeyed to the colonies in the 1600’s for religious purposes.

Believed every individual had an inner light that could guide him or her to salvation. Everyone was equal in God’s sight. They also refused to fight in wars. They were fined, jailed, even executed for their beliefs.

Toleration

The acceptance of different beliefs.

Persecute To treat someone harshly because of that person’s beliefs or practices.

Settlement

A group of people seeking permanent residence for different reasons.

Virtue

Conduct that agrees with what is morally right!Justice and Charity are virtues

Contemporary

Living or occurring at the same time period.

Religious

Devoted to God or to the powers or forces believed to govern life. <a very religious person>

Physical Geography

A branch of geography that deals with the physical features and changes of the earth.

Human Geography

A branch of geography that deals with the physical features and changes of the earth.

Joint Stock Company

• A company in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profits.

Indentured servant

• Agreeing to work without pay for a certain length of time to pay for their passage to America.

Debtor

• A person or country that owes money.

Subsistence Farming

• Producing just enough to meet immediate needs.

Cash Crops•A crop that can be sold

easily in markets.

Triangular Trade

• A trade route between three destinations, such as Britain, West Africa and the West Indies.

Tenant Farmer

• A settler who pays rent or provides work to a landowner in exchange for the right to use the landowner’s land.

Northwest Passage

• A sea passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific along the north coast of North America.

Plantation A large scale farming system.