| A | B |
|---|
| Colonized | to takeover another territory and establish a colony in; settle |
| economic reasons | Europeans explored North America in pursuit of new trade routes to Asia, resources such as gold and silver and goods that had a market in Europe |
| inhabit | to live or dwell in a place |
| colonizing powers | British, French, Spanish, Swedes, and Dutch who competed to control settlement and colonization of North America |
| forced migration | involuntary movement of people from one place to another, such as the enslavement and relocation of Africans |
| race-based slavery | the enslavement of Africans by Europeans |
| cultural bias | interpreting and judging people and events by standards based one's own culture |
| prejudice | an unfavorable opinion formed beforehand without knowledge, thought, or reason |
| stereotype | form of prejudice that sees members of other groups of people as all the same |
| triangular trade | used to refer to the trade in the 18th and 19th centuries that involved shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves. |
| Middle Passage | The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. It was one leg of the triangular trade route |
