Chp. 3 History Vocabulary

Question 0

Farming only enough crops to feed their own families

Answer 0

Subsistence farming

Question 1

Large commercial estate where many laborers lived on the land and cultivated the crops for the landowner.

Answer 1

Plantations

Question 2

Man chosen to manage a town’s affairs

Answer 2

Selectmen

Question 3

Skilled workers who knew how to manufacture various goods

Answer 3

Artisan

Question 4

Business people who risked their money by buying land, equipment, and supplies and then selling them for a profit

Answer 4

Entrepreneurs

Question 5

A set of ideas about the world economy and how it works

Answer 5

Mercantilism

Question 6

Planter elite, enjoyed enormous economic and political influence

Answer 6

Gentry

Question 7

Colony owned by the proprietor could govern his colony anyway he wished

Answer 7

Proprietary colony

Question 8

New settlers who bought a share in the company or payed for their passage were given 50 acres of land

Answer 8

Head rights

Question 9

Representatives to the General assembly of the Virginia colony

Answer 9

Burgesses

Question 10

People who wanted to purify the church

Answer 10

Puritans

Question 11

Opposition to war or violence as a means to settle disputes

Answer 11

Pacifism

Question 12

Group of Puritans who broke away from the Anglican church to form their own congregations

Answer 12

Separatists

Question 13

Large public meetings for preaching and prayer

Answer 13

Revivals

Question 14

Barrel maker

Answer 14

Cooper