Colonial Vocabulary Quiz

The ______ trade route involved the transportation of enslaved Africans to the Americas.

• Middle Passage

• Breadbasket Colonies

• Plantation

• Triangle Trade

The economic system where a nation's wealth and power are measured by its accumulation of gold and silver through a favorable balance of trade is called:

• Mercantilism

• Colony

• Backcountry

• Finished Good

An ______ is a person who signed a contract to work for a set number of years in exchange for passage to the American colonies.

• Debtor

• Indentured Servant

• Pacifist

• New Amsterdam

New York was originally known as ______.

• Banish

• New Amsterdam

• Proprietor

• Dissenter

______ is the practice of owning and controlling people as property, usually for forced labor.

• Slavery

• Commerce

• Raw Materials

• Mother Nation

The system of production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services within a society is known as:

• Economy

• Dissenter

• Banish

• Triangle Trade

A large agricultural estate using forced labor, often slaves, is referred to as a:

• Plantation

• Proprietor

• Middle Passage

• Breadbasket Colony

The original or home country from which a colony is founded is called the:

• Politics

• Mother Nation

• Commerce

• Colony

The trade route involving the transportation of enslaved Africans to the Americas was known as:

• Middle Passage

• Commerce

• Banish

• Indentured Servant

A person who opposes war or violence is referred to as a:

• Pacifist

• Dissenter

• New Amsterdam

• Colony