Exploration and Colonization Vocabulary Quiz

This defines the time of American history prior to 1775

• Columbian Exchange

• Colonial Period

• Slave Trade

• Early Republic

(a)   ability to choose and follow one's spiritual beliefs

This country sent explorers to claim land south and west of the Mississippi River for gold, ranching and farming.

• France

• England

• Spain

• Germany

First English colony settled in 1607 for the purpose of economic reasons

• Plymouth

• Jamestown

Large farming operations primarily located in the Southern colonies

• Forest

• Exploration

• Industry

• Plantations

Country that claimed most of the Atlantic coast of North America.

(a)  

The king of England's protection for individual rights and approved taxation

• Mayflower Compact

• Social Contract

• Magna Carta

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

The act of seeking and claiming new lands for economic, political, and social gain.

• Exploration

• Revolution

• Slave Trade

• Republic

Colonization for the purpose of wealth creation

• Social Benefit

• Economic Gain

• Individual Rights

• Freedom

This was an operation that captured and sold people from their homeland to work on colonial plantations.

• Industrialization

• Bartering

• Individual Rights

• Slave Trade