13 Colonies Vocabulary

Question 1

Settlement in a new area.

Answer 1

Colony

Question 2

A person who settles in a new area.

Answer 2

Settler

Question 3

Unsettled land.

Answer 3

Frontier

Question 4

Official document from the king of England to Settle in the new world.

Answer 4

Charter

Question 5

Traveling to a new land with the purpose of discovery.

Answer 5

Exploration

Question 6

Movement from one region to another.

Answer 6

Migration

Question 7

A person moving to a new country.

Answer 7

Immigrant

Question 8

A safe space.

Answer 8

Refuge

Question 9

Crop that is sold for money.

Answer 9

Cash crop

Question 10

Economic activity that involves making a new product.

Answer 10

Industry

Question 11

Government with one leader who was born into the position.

Answer 11

Monarchy

Question 12

Government that represents the people.

Answer 12

Representative government

Question 13

Cash crop that was used to make blue dye.

Answer 13

Indigo

Question 14

Named after Columbus. The exchange of food, animals, goods, customs, and ideas between the different countries.

Answer 14

Columbian Exchange

Question 15

Only allowed the colonists to trade with their mother country.

Answer 15

Mercantilism

Question 16

First representative government in the colonies.

Answer 16

House of Burgesses.