Unit 3 Test

Someone who agrees to work for a specify number of years in exchange for passage to America is called

• slave

• indentured servant

• apprentice

• journeyman

A person who learns a trade from a skilled crafts person is called

• indentured servant

• slave

• apprentice

• journeyman

System in which a grant of land is given to colonial settlers for every person they paid to bring over is called

• Joint stock

• mercantilism

• persecution

• headright

an economic system in which the mother country relies on the trade of its colonies for money

• charters

• cash crops

• head right

• mercantilism

elected legislature of the Virginia Colony; begun in 1619

• parliament

• senate

• House of Burgesses

• House of Lords

Acts of Parliament designed to force the colonies to trade directly with Great Britain.

• Stamp Acts

• Navigation Acts

• Sugar Acts

• First Act

the ability to accept different religious views; to exist together without violence or problems

• religious tolerance

• persecution

• Great Awakening

• reform

powerful land owners in the Dutch colonies who controlled large areas of land

• mob bosses

• patroons

• Lords

• Lairds

What was the Mayflower Compact?

• a very small version of the Mayflower sailing ship that got great gas mileage

• a gardening agreement

• a document signed on board the ship in which the Pilgrims agreed to create and follow laws within the elected government

• a document signed by King John which eventually led to the creation of parliament and the end of the unchecked rule of English Kings

The first real constitution in the 13 British colonies was the

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Articles of Confederation

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Maryland Order of Toleration