Unit 3: Colonial America

Question 1

colony

Answer 1

group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by the government of their native land

Question 2

evidence

Answer 2

Facts or proof that supports a claim

Question 3

motives

Answer 3

a reason for doing something

Question 4

economy

Answer 4

the wealth and resources of a country or region

Question 5

charter

Answer 5

legal document giving certain rights to a person or a company

Question 6

House of Burgesses

Answer 6

representative assembly in Virginia

Question 7

representative government

Answer 7

a political system where voters elect representatives to make laws for them

Question 8

Jamestown

Answer 8

site of the first permanent English settlement in the New World

Question 9

Pilgrims

Answer 9

English settlers who sought religious freedom in the Americas

Question 10

Plymouth

Answer 10

town settled by the Pilgrims in what becomes Massachusetts

Question 11

Mayflower Compact

Answer 11

document signed in 1620 before the Pilgrims landed that committed the group to a majority-rule government

Question 12

Puritans

Answer 12

English religious group that sought to purify the Church of England and founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Question 13

religious tolerance

Answer 13

willingness to allow others to practice their own beliefs

Question 14

proprietary colony

Answer 14

English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment

Question 15

royal colony

Answer 15

Colony under the direct control of the English crown

Question 16

Quakers

Answer 16

Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people

Question 17

cash crops

Answer 17

Crop sold for money at market

Question 18

mercantilism

Answer 18

a theory that a nation’s economic strength came from protecting and increasing its home economy by keeping strict control over its colonial trade

Question 19

triangular trade

Answer 19

Colonial trade route between New England, the West Indies, and Africa

Question 20

Navigation Acts

Answer 20

Series of laws passed by the English Parliament in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies

Question 21

indentured servant

Answer 21

Person who agreed to work without wages for a period of time in exchange for passage to the colonies

Question 22

New England Region

Answer 22

Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut

Question 23

Middle Region

Answer 23

New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

Question 24

Southern Region

Answer 24

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

Question 25

subsistence farming

Answer 25

when a family grows only enough food to survive

Question 26

merchant

Answer 26

a person who produces or trades goods

Question 27

homespun

Answer 27

products that are made at home (furniture, clothing, etc.)

Question 28

transported criminals

Answer 28

criminals that are taken from jail and made to work in the colonies

Question 29

slaves

Answer 29

people captured in Africa and sold to plantation owners; were seen as property