Thirteen Colonies (8th Grade Unit 1)

An economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies

• cash crop

• mercantilism

• charter

• democratic

A crop, such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton, raised in large quantities and sold for profit

• cash crop

• mercantilism

• charter

• democratic

A formal document issued by the king that outlined a colony's geographic boundaries and specified how it would be governed

• mercantilism

• cash crop

• democratic

• charter

Relating to a form of government in which people have power to rule themselves, often through elected officials

• democratic

• Mayflower Compact

• slave trade

An agreement that Pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the Americas

• charter

• Mayflower Compact

• democratic

• slave trade

The business of capturing, transporting, and selling people to force them into enslavement

• democratic

• charter

• slave trade

• mercantilism

Which group from England set up the Plymouth Colony?

• Quakers

• Puritans

• Catholics

• Muslims

A power or privilege that belongs to people as citizens and that cannot or should not be taken away by the government

• obligation

• duty

• right

An agreement made in 1215 listing the rights granted by King John to all free men of the kingdom

• Declaration of Independence

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• Justinian's Code

The lawmaking body of England, consisting of representatives from throughout the kingdom

• Senate

• Congress

• Judicial Courts

• Parliament