US History Colonial America Vocab

System where the colonies produced goods only for England and they would buy their goods only from England

• Boston Tea Party

• Mayflower Compact

• Mercantilism

• Power of the Purse

Immigrants to the colonies who agreed to work for a set period of time in return for payment of their passage to the colonies

• House of Burgesses

• Indentured Servant

• Middle Passage

• Continental Congress

Document signed by the Pilgrims that stated the laws for their colony would be subject to the approval of the people

• Joint Stock Company

• Magna Carta

• Social Contract

• Mayflower Compact

The governing body of the colonies during the American Revolution

• Representative Government

• Albany Plan of Union

• Proclamation of 1763

• Continental Congress

A government ruled by the elected representatives of the people

• Middle Passage

• Representative Government

• Indentured Servant

• Proclamation of 1763

Time spent by African slaves on ships bringing them from Africa to the Americas

• Power of the Purse

• Mercantilism

• Middle Passage

• Joint Stock Company

First representative governing body created by the colonists of Virginia

• House of Burgesses

• Salutary Neglect

• Mayflower Compact

• Boston Tea Party

Plan proposed by Ben Franklin, where the colonists would unite to defend themselves from France during the French and Indian War

• Middle Passage

• Joint Stock Company

• Albany Plan of Union

• Social Contract

Book by the philosopher Rousseau that proposed the idea the will of the people would decide decisions of government

• Social Contract

• Mercantilism

• Representative Government

• Magna Carta

Business where individuals would invest money to make profit

• Power of the Purse

• Proclamation of 1763

• House of Burgesses

• Joint Stock Company