STAAR Vocab #1 Exploration and Colonization

Defines the time of American History prior to 1776

• Economic Gain

• Social Benefit

• Colonial Period

• Self-Government

Ability to choose and follow one's spiritual beliefs

• Religious Freedom

• Magna Carta

• Columbian Exchange

• Colonization

Country that sent explorers to claim land south and west of the Mississippi River for gold, ranching, and farming.

• France

• Spain

• England

First English colony settled in 1607 for the purpose of economic reasons.

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

• England

• France

Large farming operations primarily located in the southern colonies.

• Exploration

• Colonization

• Plantation

• Columbian Exchange

Country that claimed most of the Atlantic coast of North America.

• Spain

• France

• England

The king of England's protection for individual rights and approved taxation.

• House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Order of Connecticut

• Magna Carta

The act of seeking and claiming new lands for economic, political, and social gain.

• exploration

• economic gain

• social benefit

• political competition

Colonization for the purpose of wealth creation.

• exploration

• social benefit

• economic gain

• colonization

operation that captured and sold people from their homeland to work on colonial plantations

• slave trade

• exploration

• colonization

• individual rights