Colonial America Vocab Quiz

What is a joint-stock company?

• A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.

• Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

• A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

• A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

Who were indentured servants?

• A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.

• Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

• A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

• A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

Who were the Puritans?

• A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.

• Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

• A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

• A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

What was the Middle Passage?

• A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.

• Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

• A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

• A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

What was the Great Awakening?

• A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.

• Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

• A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

• Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established.

What is a Quaker?

• A person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnic groups.

• Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

• A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

• A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

What was the Virginia Company?

• A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.

• Joint-Stock Company in London that received a charter for land in the new world. Charter guarantees new colonists same rights as people back in England.

• A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

• A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

What was the House of Burgesses?

• A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.

• Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

• Elected assembly in colonial Virginia, created in 1618.

• A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

What was Bacon's Rebellion?

• A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.

• A rebellion lead by Nathaniel Bacon with backcountry farmers to attack Native Americans in an attempt to gain more land

• A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

• A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

What was the Mayflower Compact?

• A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.

• Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

• A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

• The first governing document of Plymouth Colony