Unit 1 Vocabulary

Question 1

A company run by a group of investors who share the company’s profits and losses

Answer 1

Joint Stock Company

Question 2

Settlement colonists’ named to honor King James I

Answer 2

Jamestown

Question 3

An individual who agreed to work without wages for a period of time in exchange for transportation to the colonies

Answer 3

Indentured Servant

Question 4

English Protestants who believed in strict religious discipline & simplification of worship; settlers of Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 4

Puritans

Question 5

Led a large group of Puritans to America in 1630

Answer 5

John Winthrop

Question 6

Argued that settlers had no right to take land from Natives & that Massachusetts hadn’t done enough to break away from Anglican ways

Answer 6

Roger Williams

Question 7

A man who was paid a debt by King Charles II of England as Pennsylvania; Founded Pennsylvania

Answer 7

William Penn

Question 8

A religious group that sought an “Inner Light” to understand the Bible

Answer 8

Quakers

Question 9

To build wealth in a nation or empire by developing its industries & exporting manufactured goods in exchange for gold and silver

Answer 9

Mercantilism

Question 10

British trade laws enacted by Parliament during the mid 1700’s that regulated colonial commerce

Answer 10

Navigation Acts

Question 11

British policy in early 1700’s which allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as long as Great Britain was gaining economically

Answer 11

Salutary Neglect

Question 12

Rice, Indigo, Tobacco, Cotton, Wheat

Answer 12

Cash Crop examples

Question 13

Three-way pattern of trade that involved England, English colonies in the Americas and West Africa

Answer 13

Triangular Trade

Question 14

A leading preacher during the period of the Great Awakening

Answer 14

Jonathan Edwards

Question 15

A time when Evangelical preachers traveled from town to town giving emotion packed sermons that deeply touched listeners

Answer 15

1st Great Awakening

Question 16

A war started between the French & British Government of Virginia over the Ohio River Valley, where ultimately, Washington was defeated

Answer 16

French & Indian War

Question 17

A document written after the British rebuilt their forts that ordered colonial settlers to remain east of the Appalachian Mountains

Answer 17

Proclamation of 1763

Question 18

Lowered the duty on foreign molasses

Answer 18

Sugar Act

Question 19

1765 law passed by Parliament that required colonists to pay taxes on printed materials

Answer 19

Stamp Act

Question 20

Levied new import duties on items such as glass, lead, paper, & tea

Answer 20

Townshend Act

Question 21

A visualization made by Paul Revere to demonize the British

Answer 21

Boston Massacre

Question 22

When Boston Patriots boarded British ships with tea & dumped the tea into the harbor

Answer 22

Boston Tea Party

Question 23

Acts that forced colonists to house British troops & allowed British officials to be tried for crimes in the colonies

Answer 23

Intolerable Acts

Question 24

Announced American Independence and the reasons for it

Answer 24

2nd Continental Congress

Question 25

A petition that reaffirmed the colonists' allegiance to the King but not to Parliament

Answer 25

Olive Branch Petition

Question 26

A book by Thomas Paine, an English immigrant, about independence from Britain, republican state governments, and a union of the new states

Answer 26

Common Sense

Question 27

Document drawn up by the Second Continental Congress that announced American Independence & the reasons for it

Answer 27

Declaration of Independence

Question 28

Those who opposed the British taxes

Answer 28

Patriots

Question 29

Colonists' who remained loyal to Britain during the Revolution

Answer 29

Loyalists

Question 30

A victory took place & took on greater importance because it encouraged the French to recognize American Independence & to enter the war

Answer 30

Battle of Saratoga

Question 31

In 1781, Washington marched most of his troops south. The French outnumbered Washington's men

Answer 31

Battle of Yorktown

Question 32

1783 peace treaty that ended the Revolutionary War and affirmed American Independence

Answer 32

Treaty of Paris