Time Period 2 Vocab. Quiz

This provided framework of natural rights for both American and French Revolution, rise of capitalism and heavily influenced Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine.

• Thomas Paine's Common Sense

• The Enlightenment

• The French Revolution

• The articles of Confederation

The "Middle Passage" referred to

• the creation of the Panama Canal in Central America.
• the transportation of slaves from Africa to the New World.
• Lewis and Clark's expedition into the Louisiana Territory.
• the best route over the Rocky Mountains to get to California.

What is a proprietary colony?

• A colony administered directly by the King

• A colony administered by someone granted that land by the king

• A colony administered by a board of trustees running it like a business

What term describes investors who pool their money together in order to establish a colony?

• joint stock company

• headright system

• proprietary colony

• caste system

The initial policy of the English to leave the American colonies alone with regard to policy

• salutary neglect

• laissez faire

• carte blanche

• free trade agreement

English policy of granting 50 acres of land for each person that comes to the American colonies to work.

• Headright system

• Indenture system

• Encomienda system

• Chattel system

System of commerce linking Europe, Africa, and the America.

• Triangular Trade

• Atlantic Commerce System

• Navigation Acts

• North American Free Trade Agreement

An economic system based on government regulation that controlled colonial commerce and manufacturing for the enrichment of the mother country.

• Encomienda System

• Mercantilism

• Mission System

• Asiento System

This was a form of labor utilized by colonists in which Europeans would pay for passage to the New World through contract labor.

• Indentured Servitude

• Headright System

• Primogeniture

• Encomienda System

Which colony was the first English settlement in North America?

• Jamestown

• Roanoke Island

• Plymouth

• Mayflower