Colonial America Vocabulary

A crop, such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton, raised in large quantities and sold for profit

• Cash Crop

• Wealth Crop

• Crop

• Money Tree

A formal document issued by the king that outlined a colony’s geographic boundaries and specified how it would be governed

• Contract

• Magna Carter

• Bill of Rights

• Charter

Ruled by the people. In this system, citizens elect representatives to make and carry out laws.

• Autocracy

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Communism

An agreement that Pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the Americas

• Bill of Rights

• Pilgrim declaration

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

An economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies

• Charter

• Mercantilism

• barter

• Stealing

The business of capturing, transporting, and selling people as slaves

• Slave Trade

• Share cropping

• Feudalism

• None of the Above

The way a society organizes the manufacture and exchange of things of value, such as money, food, products, and services

• Geography

• Hierarchy

• trade

• Economy

An act passed by Parliament in 1689 that limited the monarch’s power by giving certain powers to Parliament and listing specific rights of the citizens

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• U.S bill of Rights

A revival of religious feeling and belief in the American colonies that began in the 1730s

• The Reformation

• Mormonism

• The Great Awakening

• None of the Above

An agreement made in 1215 listing the rights granted by King John to all free men of the kingdom

• Mayflower Compact

• The Treaty of Paris

• The Treaty of Ghent

• Magna Carta