Unit 1 Vocabulary Quiz

A social contract in which the pilgrims developed the first plan for self-government and majority rule in the colonies.

• democracy

• republic

• house of burgesses

• mayflower compact

The voyage on slave ships from Africa to America; starvation, death, and disease.

• House of Burgesses

• The Proclamation line of 1763

• Middle Passage

• French and Indian War

A system of government where the people are the source of power.

• republic

• democracy

• bicameral legislature

The colonies first representative law-making body; created in Virginia in 1619.

• House of Burgesses

• Salutary Neglect

• Mercantilism

The British ruling policy over the Colonies that allowed them to establish their own economies and local legislatures; the Colonies benefited because they were granted a lot of freedom in self-government, and the British benefited from the Colonies economic prosperity.

• Mercantilism

• Middle passage

• Salutary Neglect

• bicameral legislature

1765-1763 a conflict that began when Great Britain challenged the French for control of the land that is now Ohio and western Pennsylvania; the British and the colonists fought against the French and their Native American allies. 

• Proclamation line of 1763

• French and Indian war

• Democracy

A British law that prohibited colonial expansion west of the Appalachian Mountains. 

• The Proclamation Line of 1763

• House of Burgesses

• Bicameral Legislature

A system of government in which eligible citizens elect members of the society to govern. 

• Democracy

• Mercantilism

• Republic

A system of government that has a two-house legislative system.

• Republic

• Mercantilism

• Bicameral Legislature

An economic system in which colonies exist in order to benefit the ‘mother country’ by providing raw materials for production and markets to sell goods. 

• Middle passage

• French and Indian War

• Mercantilism