US History, Colonial America

GED US History

Colony

An area or country occupied by settlers from another, often distant country and ruled or controlled by the home country

Exports

Goods produced within a country to be sold to another country

Mercantilism

Trading for profit by producing and shipping more exports to increase a countries wealth

Indentured Servants

Workers who signed a contract to work for a number of years to pay off a debt, often their passage to the colonies

Transatlantic slave trade

System of trade taking millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the American colonies

Port City

A city where ships dock to load or unload goods for transport

Plantation

An estate designed for large-scale farming using resident slave labor

Cash crop

Products grown for commercial profit, not for use or consumption by the producer