Colonies Vocabulary

Economy is

• The way a society organizes their social structures in relation to hierarchy and power.

• The way a society organizes their religious festivals and religious practices, such as church services.

• The way a society organizes the manufacture and exchange of things of value, such as money.

• The way a society organizes their power, laws government, such as who inherits the thrown.

The First Great Awakening was

• a revival of religious feeling and belief in the American colonies in the 1730s.

• the first steps toward tensions that led to the start of the Civil War.

• a movement that took place in the Southern Colonies to grow more crops

• the Atlantic crossing that colonists took by boat when traveling the the "New World."

A/An ________ is a new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land.

• indentured servent

• expedition

• Puritan

• colony

The Southern Colonies was known for

• shipbuilding

• growing tobacco, rice and indigo

• a Spanish territory

• a place where fur trappers lived

Missionaries traveled to the "New World" to spread political and economic ideas to the colonies.

• true

• false

What colony completely disappeared, leaving very little evidence of what happened to the people living there?

• Plymouth

• New Amsterdam

• Jamestown

• Roanoke

How many colonies did the English have in the "New World"?

• 50

• 12

• 3

• 13

What 3 colonial regions (territories) of early American were NOT included;

• Western Colonies

• New England Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Middle Colonies

Which was NOT an original colony?

• Massachusetts

• Georgia

• Virginia

• Ohio

Which European country colonized most of central and south America?

• England

• France

• Spain

• Netherlands