history vocab quiz 1

Question 1

slavery

Answer 1

treatment of people as property; the people that are denied freedom and are enslaved

Question 2

colony

Answer 2

a new territory established and governed by a country in another land.

Question 3

cash crop

Answer 3

crop such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton raised in large quantities and sold.

Question 4

puritan

Answer 4

English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices

Question 5

pilgrim

Answer 5

a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.

Question 6

new england colonies

Answer 6

the settlements established by English religious dissenters along the coast of the north-east of North America between 1620-1640 CE.
rhode island, new Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut

Question 7

middle colonies

Answer 7

comprised the middle region of the 13 colonies of the British empire in north America.
Pennsylvania, new jersey, NYC, delware

Question 8

southern colonies

Answer 8

made up of the colonies of virginia, Maryland, north Carolina, south carolina, and georgia

Question 9

quaker

Answer 9

a popular name for a member of the religious society of friends

Question 10

middle passage

Answer 10

the sea journey was undertaken by slave ships from west Africa to the west indies

Question 11

charter

Answer 11

a formal document issued by the king that outlined a colony’s geographically boundaries and specified how it would be governed

Question 12

mayflower compact

Answer 12

an agreement that pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the americans

Question 13

slave trade

Answer 13

business of capturing, transporting, and selling people to force them into enslavement.

Question 14

triangular trade

Answer 14

shipping goods from britain to west africa for slaves, then slaves were shipped to west indies for sugar, rum, etc, then these goods were shipped back.

Question 15

magna carta

Answer 15

an agreement made in 1215 listing the rights granted by king john to all free men of the kingdom

Question 16

parliament

Answer 16

a formal conference discussing of public affairs.

Question 17

english bill of rights

Answer 17

an act passed by the parliament in 1689 that limited the monarch’s power by giving certain powers to parliament and listing specific rights of citizens.

Question 18

merchantilism

Answer 18

an economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling the trade and establishing colonies.

Question 19

great awakening

Answer 19

a revival of religious feeling and belief in the American colonies that began in the 1730s

Question 20

indentured servant

Answer 20

a person who signs and is bound by indentures to work for a specified time especially in return for payment of travel.