🏎 Age of Exploration

What is mercantilism?

• A system where a mother countries gains money and power from natural resources that come from its colonies.

• where colonies trade gold and silver with each other.

• Wars that start over money.

• Plantation colonies trading slaves for money.

EXPORTS of the 13 colonies included:

• Manufactured goods

• Raw Materials

• Slaves

• Gold

The impact of mercantilism was that

• The rate of slavery in the Americas went down

• Trade was limited in the Atlantic

• The Colony grew wealthy

• The Mother Country grew wealthy

What is one role colonies play in a mercantilist system?

• Colonies purchase raw materials from other countries.

• Colonies manufacture finished products for the mother country.

• Colonies sell raw materials to other countries.

• Colonies purchase finished products from the mother country.

What is the BEST definition for colonization?

• when people move somewhere but return to their home country
• when a group of people move to a new place and set up a new government
• when a society becomes multicultural
• when trade relationships are formed between countries

Investors buy shares in a company for a share in their profits

• Indentured Servant

• Charter

• Joint Stock Company

• Backcountry

Gives the owner the right to organize settlements in an area.

• Indentured Servant

• Burgesses

• Salutary Neglect

• Charter

to mistreat a person or group on the basis of their beliefs

• tolerance

• dissent

• persecute

• indigo

a company in which a group of investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profits.

• joint-stock company

• burgess

• debtor

• patroon

What is a pilgrimage?

• A religious journey to a place of holy significance

• A Christian festival

• When Christians confess their sins

• A journey to the local place of worship