Exploration + Colonization Vocab

​Directions: Using the following slides, write down the definitions of each word in your notes. Then, take the quiz (it's for a grade). Finally, cut out and glue the notes into your journal. Remember to label the vocabulary in your table of contents!

Match

Match the following words to their definitions. (Use your notes)

• Mercantilism

• Charter

• Plantation

• Social Contract

• Exploration

An economic system where a country wants to sell more stuff than it buys so that it can make money.

Written permission to do something by a king or government

A large farm that grows crops for the purpose of selling what they grow rather than eating it

An agreement among people of a community to work together for their greater good.

Traveling through an unknown area in order to learn more about it

• An economic system where a country wants to sell more stuff than it buys so that it can make money.

• Written permission to do something by a king or government

• A large farm that grows crops for the purpose of selling what they grow rather than eating it

• An agreement among people of a community to work together for their greater good.

• Traveling through an unknown area in order to learn more about it

Match

Match the following words to their definition. (Use your notes)

• Religious Tolerance

• Region

• Cash Crop

• Colonization

• Representative Government

People being okay with others practicing the religion of their choice

An area of land with similar characteristics throughout.

A plant that is grown to be sold for a large profit

The action of settling and making towns in a place separate from your original country

A system where you vote to put people in charge that represent what you want to happen

• People being okay with others practicing the religion of their choice

• An area of land with similar characteristics throughout.

• A plant that is grown to be sold for a large profit

• The action of settling and making towns in a place separate from your original country

• A system where you vote to put people in charge that represent what you want to happen