| A | B |
|---|
| colony | a land ruled by another country |
| plantation | large farms |
| slavery | the practice of holding people against their will and making them work with no pay |
| borderlands | land on the edge of Spain's claims |
| presidio | forts built in the borderlands |
| mission | religious settlement |
| hacienda | large homes or estates |
| pilgrim | a person who makes a journey for religious reasons |
| compact | an agreement |
| self-government | the right to govern themselves |
| majority rule | a law agreed on by more than half of the people |
| demand | a strong desire |
| supply | the amount of a good that is offered for sale |
| ally | friendly partner |
| proprietary colony | land owned by only one person |
| raw material | a resource that can be used to make a product |
| stock | a part ownership in a business |
| cash crop | a crop that people grow to sell |
| profit | the money left over after all costs have been paid |
| indentured servant | workers working without pay in exchange for their passage to Virginia |
| legislature | lawmaking branch of the government |
| represent | to speak for |
| royal colony | land owned by a king or queen |
| Mayflower | the ship the Pilgrims sailed on to get to North America |
| John White | he was sent by Raleigh to lead people to Roanoke Island |
| John Smith | he was the leader of Jamestown |
| Pocahontas | she helped bring peace between the colonists and the Native Americans |
| John Rolfe | he brought tobacco plants from the West Indies to the colony |
| Jamestown | England's first permanent colony |
| Louis Joliet | a fur trader who went along with Marquette to find the Mississippi River |
