Week 10 Vocab
A distant territory belonging to or under the control of another nation
Colony
A large area of land where crops are grown and harvested
Plantation
Crops that were farmed for the purpose of selling to others.
Cash crops
The buying and selling of goods and services
Trade
a person sent with power to act for another or others
Delegate
Rode to warn the colonists that the British were coming
Paul Revere
Final important battle in the Revolutionary War
Battle of Yorktown
A risky or daring journey or undertaking
Venture
A person skilled in making a product by hand
Artisan
A plant used to create blue dye.
Indigo
Money collected by the government from people or businesses for public use
Tax
unbearable
intolerable
First battles of the Revolutionary War
Lexington and Concord
Treaty that ended the war
Treaty of Paris
A group of people who want to form a new country or religion that is separate from the one they are currently in
Separatists
A person who works without pay in exchange for the cost of travel, food, and lodging.
Indentured servant
Common Cash Crops
Cotton, tobacco, indigo
The group within a government that makes the laws
using force or threats to make someone do something
Coercive
Encampment called the birthplace of the American Army
Valley Forge
One of the Founding Fathers that signed the Declaration of Independence, also published a newspaper and helped discover electricity
Benjamin Franklin
a group of people who wanted to simplify the Church of England
Puritans
A system where the farmer paid the landowner rent for farmland and a house.
Tenant farming
Blacksmiths, candlemakers, shoemakers, tailors, etc.
The legislature in the government of the United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Parliament
to refuse to buy, go to, or use in order to bring about change
boycott
Commander of the Continental Army
Famous Virginian that wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
A prison where people who owed debts were jailed
Debtors Prison
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Imported or exported goods in bulk to large cities
Merchants
The leader of a colony
Governor
to give legal approval to an agreement
ratify
Marquis de Lafayette
Famous Governor of Virginia that gave a speech stating "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!"
Patrick Henry