KEY TERMS

• Empire


  group of colonies
• colony


  a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
• enslavement


  The action of making someone a slave
• abolition


  Movement to end slavery
• plantation


  a large farm
• exploitation


  the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work.
• Industrialisation


  the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.
• Trade


  Exchange of goods and services
• Conquest


  the defeat of another group
• Columbian Exchange


  exchange of new to old world and vice versa

  
• Aborigine


  indingineous people of australia
• famine


  an extreme shortage of food
• smallpox


  A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever, weakness, and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs; responsible for killing Native Americans.
• abolitionist


  A person who wanted to end slavery
• Anaesthetic


  drug for removal of feeling, james simpson
• Anti-septic


  An agent, which prevents the growth of bacteria, joseph lister
• Germ Theory


  the discovery of germs, louis pasteur
• Sanitation


  removal of waste products
• Slums


  Poor, run-down urban neighborhoods
• Suffrage


  women campaigning for the vote
• Equality


  As a political value, the idea that all people are of equal worth.
• Fraternity


  brotherhood
• Liberty


  freedom
• Guillotine


  A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution.

  
• terror


  extreme fear
• Franchise


  the right to vote
• Militant


  given to fighting
• Caribbean


  First area of Spanish exploration and settlement; served as experimental region for nature of Spanish colonial experience; encomienda system of colonial management initiated here.