Unit 3 Vocab

A belief that a country’s security depended on selling more products than it bought (maintaining a positive trade balance); establishing colonies who would sell raw materials to the home country at low prices and who would in turn buy what they needed ONLY from the mother country

• Navigation Acts

• Mercantilism

• Pilgrims

• Parliament

Answer explanation

M &M

A series of laws passed by the English Parliament in the 1650s that established rules for trade between England and its colonies (2)

• Triangular Trade

• Mercantilism

• Colonization

• Navigation Acts

Answer explanation

It's trade law for colonies and England

A trade route that developed between Britain, Africa and British colonies in the Americas during the colonial era

• Navigation Acts

• Mercantilism

• Triangular Trade

• Colonization

Answer explanation

its name comes from the fact that the route had three parts, like a triangle has three sides

Also called Separatists, this group of Protestant Christians left England and settled at Plymouth due to the persecution they faced in Europe

• Persecution

• Parliament

• Pilgrims

• Colonization

Answer explanation

they wanted to break completely away from the Church of England

An agreement signed by the Pilgrims before they landed at Plymouth; they agreed to make and follow laws for the common good

• Pilgrims

• Navigation Acts

• Parliament

• Mayflower Compact

Answer explanation

first example of self-government in the 13 colonies

Mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs

• Persecution

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Pilgrims

• Mayflower Compact

Answer explanation

the Pilgrims were being persecuted for wanting to separate from the catholic church

Representative assembly in colonial Virginia; the first form of representative government in the 13 colonies

• Colonization

• Parliament

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Mercantilism

Answer explanation

first form of representative government in the 13 colonies

Representative assembly in England

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Persecution

• Colonization

• Parliament

Answer explanation

they wanted to share power with the king

Taking control of an area and then sending citizens from your country to live there

• Colonization

• Mercantilism

• Navigation Acts

• Persecution

Answer explanation

EX: JAME$TOWN AND PLYMOUTH