Exploration and Colonization Vocabulary Quiz

traveling to new territories for the purpose of discovery

• exploration

• colonization

• mercantilism

• migration

state sponsored settlement of people to new territories

• exploration

• colonization

• region

• charter

economic policy where colonies serve as a source of raw materials to increase the wealth and maintain a favorable balance of trade for the “mother” country

• mercantilism

• plantation

• subsistence farming

• cash crops

political system where policies are created by representatives selected by the people

• representative government

• charter

• parliament

• mercantilism

a contract given to someone to establish a colony

• charter

• primary source

• social contract

• agrarian

large agricultural enterprise where crops are grown for sale

• plantation

• harbor

• agrarian

• cash crops

a body of water shelter by natural or artificial barriers

• harbors

• agrarian

• migration

• charter

grown for direct sale in the market, rather than for family consumption or to feed livestock

• cash crops

• plantations

• subsistence farming

• mercantilism

A town based around farming is an example of an __________ community.

• agrarian

• plantation

• colony

• subsistence farming

the lawmaking body of England, consisting of representatives from throughout the kingdom is called __________

• parliament

• representative government

• primary source

• secondary source