13 Colonies Vocab

A plant grown to sell, instead of the farmer using it himself.

• artisan

• terrain

• cash crop

• dissenter

A person under contract to work for another person for a certain amount of time, usually without being paid but in exchange for freedom.

• artisan

• indentured servant

• slave trade

• town crier

Trade routes between Africa, the Americas, and Europe, in which ships carried cash crops, manufactured goods, and enslaved people were known as

• Middle Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangular Trade

Mayflower Compact

• An agreement to form a government

• A list of questions for a judge

• Something used by women to apply makeup

A group of Protestants who opposed war and believed in the equality of all people.

• Quakers

• Catholics

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

Economic policy where colonies serve as a source of raw materials to increase the wealth and maintain a favorable balance of trade for the "mother" country.

• Mercantilism

• Representative Government

• Charter

• Plantations

Match the following terms to their definitions

• a crop grown for sale to make a profit (examples: wheat, corn)

• plantations

• a large farm dedicated to growing substantial amounts of crops for profit, uses enslaved labor

• cash crops

• a type of agriculture in which people lived on what they grew themselves

• subsistence farms

A type of farming in which most of the produce is consumed by the farmer and his or her family, leaving little or nothing to be marketed in.

• Subsistence Farming

• Mayflower Compact

• Virginia House of Burgess

Pilgrims were different than Puritans because they

• Had no opinion about the Church of England

• Were happy to belong to the Church of England

• Wanted to purify the Church of England

• Wanted to completely separate from the Church of England

Which religious group wanted to "purify the church of England"?

• Pilgrims

• Puritans

• Separatists

• Quakers