F&C Round 3: Colonies Terms Part 2

An area under the control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

• settlement

• colony

• city

• capital

Government of a country controlled by the people living there.

• dictatorship

• colony

• self government

• Bill of Rights

Assembly of people chosen to speak on behalf of a larger group.

• representative government

• Church

• assembly

• petition

A group of people gathered together in one place for a common purpose.

• self government

• democracy

• represntative

• assembly

The act of buying and selling goods and services.

• colonize

• trade

• monarch

• bank

To send goods to another country to sale. The colonies did this with cash crops in the Southern Colonies.

• trade

• import

• export

• mercantile

First representative government in America started in Jamestown, Virginia.

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Maryland Act of Toleration

• Mayflower Compact

• House of Burgesses

An official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony.

• charter

• constitution

• deed

• contract

An organized assembly that has the authority to make up the laws for the colony.

• legislature

• Mayflower Compact

• Bill of Rights

• Governor

The policy of using colonies to bring wealth to the Mother Country.

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangular Trade

• Mercantilism

• Exporting trade