Unit 2 Vocabulary & 13 Colonies Practice

The first representative government in the English colonies. Voters elect leaders to make laws for them.

• House of Burgesses

• House of Representatives

• American Legislature

• Continental Congress

A person who is bound to work for another for a certain period of time in exchange for food, clothing, shelter, or payment

• Indentured servant

• slave

• subsistence farmer

• indentured farmer

The part of the Atlantic slave trade in which enslaved Africans were brought to America on slave ships

• Middle Passage

• Triangular Trade

• Atlantic Ocean

• Bermuda Triangle

Farmers grow food for themselves and their families

• subsistence farming

• substantial farming

• plantation farming

• self sustaining farming

a British document signed in 1215 that contained two basic ideas: monarchs themselves have to obey the laws, and citizens have basic rights

• Magna Carta

• The Constitution

• Federalist Papers

• Treaty of Versailles

an English settler who sought religious freedom in the Americas in the 1600s

• Pilgrim

• Puritan

• Powhatan

• Colonist

a 1620 agreement for the Plymouth Colony that established rules for self government

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• Bill of Rights

• House of Burgesses

a group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Puritan

• Pilgrim

• Powhatan

• Colonist

the colonial trade route between New England, Africa, and the West Indies

• Triangular Trade

• Middle Passage

• Atlantic Ocean

the amount of goods or resources in stock or on hand or available in the market to sell

• supply

• demand

• macroeconomics

• microeconomics