STAAR VOCAB REVIEW #1

This European country claimed most of the ATLANTIC coast of North America

• France

• Spain

• England

• Portugal

Large farming operations primarily located in the SOUTHERN colonies

• factories

• plantations

• whigs

• individual rights

First English colony settled in 1607 for economic reasons

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

• Boston

• Charleston

Colonization for the purpose of WEALTH CREATION

• religious freedom

• states rights

• economic gain

• political purposes

Country that operated FUR-TRADING outposts in areas northwest of the Appalachian Mountains

• Spain

• The Netherlands

• England

• France

Self-governing agreement reached by Pilgrims at Cape Cod in 1620

• House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Magna Carta

A motive to settle new areas that established new opportunities for people less fortunate

• social mobility

• economic gain

• religious freedom

• individual rights

Operation that captured and sold people from their homeland to work on colonial plantations

• slave trade

• indentured servitude

• impressment

• drug operations

Representative assembly established in the colony of Virginia

• Parliament

• Congress

• House of Commons

• House of Burgesses

Defines the time period of American history prior to 1776

• Era of Reconstruction

• Colonial Era

• The American Revolutionary Era

• The Era of Jackson