| A | B |
|---|
| Claim | To say one owns something |
| Colony | A settlement ruled by a distant country |
| Raw Material | Any resource that can be used to make a product |
| Stock | Shares of ownership, in the company. |
| Charter | A document giving a person or group of people official approval to take a certain action |
| Permanent | Long-Lasting |
| Colonists | People living in a colony |
| Profit | The money left over after all expenses have been paid |
| Governor | The leader of a colony or state |
| Cash Crop | A crop people grow to sell rather than to use themselves |
| Economy | The way people use resources to meet their needs |
| Indentured Servants | A person who agrees to wrk without pay for a certain length of time in exchange for some benefit. |
| Plantations | Large farms |
| Slave | A person held held against his or her will and forced to work for no pay |
| Representative | Someone chosen by a group and given the power to make descisions for its members |
| Burgesses | A representative of a certain area |
| Legislature | Lawmaking group |
| Massacre | The killing of number of people who cannot defend themselves |
| Royal Colony | A colony controlled directly by a king or queen |
| Treaty | Official agreement between groups or countries, ending the fighting |
| Consequence | What happens because of an action |
| Planter | A person who owns or manages a plantation |
| Barter | To trade one kind of good or service for another without using any money |
| Credit | A plan that allows a person to buy something now and pay for it later |
| Debts | The money or goods or services owed to other people |
| Treason | The crime of working against one's own government |
| Rebellion | An armed fight against a lawfull government |
| Frontier | Land that lies beyond settled areas |
| Self-Sufficient | They met their own needs by making or growing nearly everything they used |
| Pioneer | A person who first settles a new place |
| Migration | Movement of people , to Virginia |
| Decade | A period of 10 years |
| Century | A period of 100 years |
