Semester 1 Vocab Review

An exchange of goods, ideas and skills from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa.

• Boycott
• Middle Passage
• Ambush
• Columbian Exchange

A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area

• Charter
• Anti-Federalists
• Estate
• Blockade

A group of people who share the cost and split the profits of starting a colony

• Mercenary
• Hessians
• Debtors
• joint-stock company

a 50-acre grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way to the new world

• Separatists
• Bicameral
• Headright
• Mercenary

Elected government in colonial Virginia

• Headright
• House of Burgesses
• Bicameral
• Committees of Correspondence

representatives

• Mercantilism
• Indentured Servants
• Burgesses
• Separatists

People who wanted to separate from the Church of England to practice their religion freely. A good example of these people would be the Pilgrims.

• Federal Government
• Separatists
• Slave Codes
• Confederation

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

• Puritans
• Committees of Correspondence
• Desert
• Loyalists

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

• Committees of Correspondence
• Indentured Servants
• Headright
• Propaganda

to mistreat a person or group because of their beliefs

• Mercenary
• Patroons
• Minutemen
• Persecute