Colonial Era Vocabulary Quiz

a document issued by a government that grants specific rights to a person or company is known as a

• charter

• debtor

• gentry

• compact

The Virginia House of Burgesses was the

• first colonial government

• first colonial document calling for self-government

• the World's first constitution

• the process for electing the colony's president

The Mayflower Compact was the

• first colonial government

• first colonial document calling for self-government

• the World's first constitution

• the process for electing the colony's president

Recognition that other people have a right to different opinions

• religious toleration

• religious intolerance

• Puritanism

• manifest destiny

The Carolina Colony was created by a grant of land from the King to a small group of aristocrats. Therefore it was a ____________ colony.

• proprietary

• royal

• territory

• prepared

An English royal colony was directly controlled by the

• king

• aristocrats

• democratic government

• natives

Under English laws, the government could imprison people who owed money until they paid it. These people are called:

• debtors

• creditors

• deposits

• Deborahs

During the Civil War President Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, meaning that

• people could be held in prison indefinitely without being charged with a crime

• people could be arrested for civil disobedience

• people could not purchase bread

• grave robbing became legal

The upper class of colonial society was known as the

• gentry

• gallows

• geriatrics

• gentiles

A person who signed a contract to work for a certain numbers of years in exchange for passage to the Americas

• indentured servant

• slave

• apprentice

• debtor