Vocab Quiz 2.1-2.3

A business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose is a

• headright system

• joint-stock company

_______ were members of a group that wanted to eliminate or purify all traces of Roman Catholic ritual and traditions in the Church of England.

• Quakers

• Puritans

_____ was the second permanent English colony North America.

• Jamestown

• Plymouth Colony

The _______ was a conflict in which the Pequot nation battled Connecticut colonists and the Narragansett allies.

• Pequot War

• French and Indian War

The English colonist in the Americas who helped found Jamestown Colony.

• William Penn

• John Smith

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

• Jamestown

• Plymouth Colony

A royal colony is

• a colony under the direct rule of the English monarch.

• a colony that grants 50 acres of land to each settler.

The Virginia Company's policy of granting 50 acres of land to each settler and to each family member who accompanied him

• indentured servant

• headright system

An economic system in which nations seek to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by establish a favorable balance of trade is _____.

• headright system

• mercantilism

A group of Native American peoples that lived in eastern Virginia at the time of the first English settlements there

• Iroquois

• Powhatan