Exploration and Colonization Vocabulary Part 1

Which of the PEGS method is best described by this definition?

Relating to the way power is achieved and used in a country or society.

Which choice best represents the definition?

A profitable trade route that exchanged "molasses to rum to slaves" between the West Indies (Caribbean), New England, and Africa

• Caribbean Circle

• Market of the West Indies

• The Middle Passage

• Triangular Trade

The first permanent English colony in North America, founded in 1607.

• Roanoke

• Plymouth

• Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Jamestown

Which choice best represents the definition?

A large piece of land where crops such as cotton, tobacco, or sugar are grown.

• Terrace

• Plantation

• Acre

• Farm

________________ - an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose.

Which choice is the best definition for the word, Persecution?

• To mistreat a person or group on the basis of their beliefs.

• The annual adjustment of calendars.

• A form of crop rotation.

• The permanent movement of people into one country from another nation.

A _______________ is a country that is controlled by a more powerful country.

___________ - Concerned with the organization of the money, industry, and trade of a country, region, or society (PEGS).

Natural Resources are... (choose the best definition)

• Money.

• Traded items from one country to another.

• All the land, forests, energy sources and minerals existing naturally in a place and which can be used by people.

• Economic.

Allowing other religions and beliefs to be practiced. In a country with a state religion, toleration means that the government allows other religions to be practiced. This is known as...

• Religious Toleration

• Assemblies

• Persecution

• Social