Vocabulary #5

Which word means a written document from King James I and other Kings granting land and the authority to set up a colony?

• Compact

• Colony

• Charter

• Career

This philosopher supported rule of law and believed everyone is equally accountable?

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

Many American colonies where set up where colonists could invest for partial ownership in return for future profits. Jamestown, the first successful American colony was this type of colony?

• Royal Colony

• Charted Colony

• Proprietary Colony

• Joint-Stock Colony

a colony under direct control of the English crown

• Royal Colony

• Mercantilism

• Charter

• Proprietary Colony

an English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for yearly payment

• Royal Colony

• Mercantilism

• Charter

• Proprietary Colony

the movement in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Enlightenment

• Great Awakening

A religious group that wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

• Debtors

• Indentured Servants

• Puritans

• Catholics

English Puritans who founded Plymouth colony in 1620

• Indentured Servants

• Pilgrims

• Debtors

• Catholics

1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.

• The Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

• The Constitution

• The Mayflower Compact

An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Imperialism