Unit 4 Key Terms

In this type of colony, colonists are self-governing and are ruled by the colonists

• royal colony

• proprietary colony

• charter colony

• British colony

an official elected or chosen to act as head of a territory/colony/state

• President

• governor

• legislature

• council

group elected or chosen to advise the colonial governor and courts in a colony

• council

• assembly

• governor

• monarch

a legislative body that makes laws and enacts taxes

• council

• assembly

• monarch

• governor

This type of colony is ruled by a proprietor (owner) that has been granted ownership of the colony by the monarch

• royal

• proprietary

• charter

• British

a colony governed directly by the king through a governor and council

• royal

• proprietary

• charter

• British

colonies make money for the mother country (Great Britain)

• interdependence

• mercantilism

• triangular trade

• Middle Passage

colonies trade with each other for goods that they did not have or could not produce

• interdependence

• mercantilism

• triangular trade

• breadbasket

trade that occurred between North America, Europe, and Africa

• interdependence

• mercantilism

• triangular trade

• Middle Passage

the second part of the triangular trade (from Africa to the Americas) where captive Africans were shipped to the New World to be sold into slavery

• Great Awakening

• debtor

• breadbasket

• Middle Passage