1. Vocabulary test 6
By: Mrs. Crisp

2. Democratic
A government by the people, for the people.

3. Diverse
Different from each other.

4. Indentured Servants
Individuals who agreed to work for a period of time in exchange for free passage from Europe.

5. Grant
To give someone something that he or she has asked for.

6. Assembly
A group of government officials who meet to make laws.

7. dilemmas
When you are forced to make a decision even though you do not like any of the choices.

8. Middle passage
The voyage of slave traders and enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Americas.

9. Plantation
A usually large area of privately owned land where crops were grown with the labor of workers or slaves who lived on the land.

10. Americas
The continents of North and South America, along with nearby islands, like those in the Caribbean Sea.

11. Slave auction
A sale in which slaves were sold to buyers who bid for them.

12. overseer
A person who was out in charge of the work of slaves.