The Americas Vocabulary Review

a time of great advances in art, literature, and science. It was also the name for a time of great trade.

• the Renaissance

• the Separatists

• the Puritans

the study of human history through the artifacts people leave behind

• indentured servants

• historology

• archaeology

a new community where people have not already lived

• plantation

• settlement

• militia

a community ruled by a government from a distant land

• colony

• redcoats

• continent

What is the name for a person who was loyal to the crown (Britain and King George III)?

• patriot

• Sons of Liberty

• loyalist

What is the name for a person who was prepared to fight for independence for in the American colonies?

• redcoat

• patriot

• Quaker

What is the name for the route across the Atlantic where enslaved people were taken from?

• the Middle Passage

• South America

• The London Bridge