Colonization Vocab Quiz

Spiritual revival that swept the colonies in the 1730’s and 1740’s.

• Great Awakening

• Great Migration

• Middle Passage

• Age of Reason

Crops such as-tobacco, rice, and indigo- sold for profit.

• Bicameral

• Cash Crops

• Plantations

• Free Enterprise

Boat ride of slaves from Africa to the American colonies.

• Mercantilism

• Enlightenment

• Middle Passage

• Navigation Acts

Economic competition with little government control

• Bicameral

• Great Migration

• Mercantilism

• Free Enterprise

Laws that forced the colonies to trade mostly with England.

• Navigation Acts

• Mercantilism

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

Economic theory used by Europe claiming that their colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country.

• Charter

• Free Enterprise

• Mercantilism

• Cash Crops

Parliament reduces the power of the king in 1689.

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• Bill of RIghts

Group of lawmakers that were elected by the people of Virginia.

• Bicameral

• Parliament

• House of Burgesses

• Loyalists

Definition: law making body made up of two houses.

• House of Burgesses

• Congress

• Parliament

• Bicameral

Thousands of Puritans flock to the New World between 1630 and 1640.

• Great Pilgrimage

• Great Migration

• Navigation Acts

• Columbian Exchange