Unit 1 Vocabulary

What is an agricultural product that is grown for the sole purpose of selling?

• cash crop

• export

• free enterprise

• import

What is a European system of trading between colonies and their mother country (home) in which the mother country benefits?

• import

• export

• Mercantilism

• triangular trade

What is another word for an agreement?

• deal

• compact

• representative government

• contract

What is the use of large-scale agriculture for financial gain?

• Cash crop

• Farming

• Free enterprise system

• Plantation system

When you go to new areas of the world for the first time it is called...

• Travel

• Sightseeing

• Exploration

• Colonization

The movement of plants, animals and diseases between the eastern and western hemispheres was known as...

• Triangular trade

• Sharing

• Trading

• Colombian Exchange

A business that is governed by the laws of supply and demand, not restrained by government interference whereby the consumer controls the demand is known as...

• Colombian Exchange

• Triangular Trade

• Free Enterprise

• Mercantilism

What is the name of Great Britain's legislature (law making body)?

• Parliament

• Congress

• House of Burgesses

• Senate

This term refers to the slave trade that crossed the Atlantic Ocean...

• Triangular Trade

• Colombian Exchange

• Middle Passage

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

A system that involves the electing of officials to carry out the will of the people...

• Democracy

• Representative Government

• Mayflower Compact

• Free Enterprise System