4th Grade Life in Colonial America Vocabulary

Mrs. Thornburg’s version

What do we call an area of land ruled by another country?

Colony

What do we call people who cultivated their own crops on their land?

Farmers

What do we call adult female human beings?

Women

What do we call black men and women who worked on a plantation for no money?

Slaves

What do we call the buying and selling of goods?

Trade

What do we call the thing you give up when you decide to do or have something else?

Opportunity Cost

What do we call people who are skilled at making something by hand, such as silver spoons or

wooden chairs?

Artisans

What do we call people who owns large plots of land?

Large landowners

What do we call someone who agreed to work for a number of years in exchange for the cost of a

voyage to North America?

Indentured servant

What do we call the quality that makes a person able to face danger or difficulty bravely?

Courage

What do we call love and support for one’s country?

Patriotism

What do we call the quality of being honest?

Honesty

What do we call it when someone is worthy of trust or dependable?

Trustworthiness

What do we call the result of people making the goods they are best able to produce with the

resources they have?

Specialization

What do we call the process of willingly trading one item for another?

Voluntary exchange

What do we call a common form of sales promotion in which price reductions are offered to consumers to

encourage them to buy a particular product earlier or in larger quantity?

Price Incentives

What do we call the amount of goods and services produced by workers in a certain amount of time?

Productivity