| Term | Definition |
| Colonialism | building settlements in other lands |
| Migration | movement of people |
| Immunity | the body's ability to resist infection |
| Indentured Servant | workers who signed contracts to work for a set number of years to pay off their trip to a new country |
| Alantic Slave Trade | the capture and transport of Africans into bondage in the Americas |
| Caboceer | special African officials appointed by goverments to exchange enslaved people to Europeans |
| Racism | the unjust treatment of people by people who falsely believe their race is superior to others |
| Maroon | the name to runaway slaves in Jamaica |
| Abolotion | antislavery |