Colonial America Vocabulary Review

What is a colony?

• A settlement of people living in a new territory controlled by the home country

• A system of money in a nation

• Farming that produces just enough to feed the family

• Someone who buys and sells large amounts of goods

What was the Age of Exploration?

• A settlement of people living in a new territory controlled by the home country

• A time period when European countries explored other areas of the world in search of land, goods, and trading partners

• Farming that produces just enough to feed the family

• A person who agrees to work without pay for a number of years in exchange for passage to America

What is capitalism?

• A settlement of people living in a new territory controlled by the home country

• A time period when European countries explored other areas of the world in search of land, goods, and trading partners

• An economic system in which private citizens and companies own the production and sale of goods

• A person who agrees to work without pay for a number of years in exchange for passage to America

What does it mean to colonize?

• A settlement of people living in a new territory controlled by the home country

• A time period when European countries explored other areas of the world in search of land, goods, and trading partners

• An economic system in which private citizens and companies own the production and sale of goods

• To control a country or area by sending your own people to live there

What is a consequence?

• A settlement of people living in a new territory controlled by the home country

• A result or effect of an action or condition; of importance or relevance

• An economic system in which private citizens and companies own the production and sale of goods

• To control a country or area by sending your own people to live there

What is subsistence farming?

• A settlement of people living in a new territory controlled by the home country

• A system of money in a nation

• Farming that produces just enough to feed the family

• Someone who buys and sells large amounts of goods

Who is an indentured servant?

• A settlement of people living in a new territory controlled by the home country

• A time period when European countries explored other areas of the world in search of land, goods, and trading partners

• An economic system in which private citizens and companies own the production and sale of goods

• A person who agrees to work without pay for a number of years in exchange for passage to America

What is a merchant?

• A settlement of people living in a new territory controlled by the home country

• A system of money in a nation

• Farming that produces just enough to feed the family

• Someone who buys and sells large amounts of goods

What was the Columbian Exchange?

• A global exchange through exploration

• An exchange of Columbus' best ideas

• A global exchange of people, goods, technology, ideas, and even diseases

• An exchange within Europe of people, goods, technology, ideas, and even diseases

What does the term "economy" mean?

• farming that produces just enough to feed the family

• the process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought in a country

• how people make their own goods

• to give one thing and receive another that is either the same type or the same value; to trade goods