European Colonization

Indentured Servant

a worker who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America.

Colonization

a system where a mother country takes over land and colonies to gain more natural resources.

Slave

a person that is owned, held, and forced to work against their will by another person.

Colony

a piece of territory or land that is claimed by another nation, or Mother Country.

Representative Democracy

a system of government where citizens elect officials to make laws on their behalf.

Northwest Passage

a sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, located along the north part of North America.

Cash Crop

anything that is grown and sold to make a profit. (ex. Tobacco, cotton, sugarcane, tea)

Constitution

a written plan for government that lists the rules and function of a government.

Economy

the money of a country or region

Natural Resources

materials found in nature that are used in the economy (ex. lumber, minerals, etc.)

Migration

The movement of people from one country or region to another in order to make a new home

Hernande de Soto

First European to cross the Mississippi river

Yemmassee

Major Native American tribe along the coast of SC. Came here from Florida after losing war to the Spanish

Cherokee

A group of Native Americans that lived in present day Beaufort in South Carolina near the Appalachian Mountains

Catawba

"River people" who lived in the Piedmont region of South Carolina

Jamestown

The first permanent English settlement in North America\New World

Charlestown

First permanent settlement in SC

Pilgrims

Group of English Protestant dudes who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after getting religiously tortured in England by Bloody Mary

Puritans

A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

John Smith

English explorer who found the colony Jamestown

John Rolfe

He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He first discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia.

House of Burgesses

First elected assembly in The New World/Americas

1609-1610

Time Period of The Starving Time