Exploration & Colonization Vocab

1. Group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by the government of their native land.

• Plantation
• Colony
• Alliance
• House of Burgesses

2. The global exchange of goods and ideas resulting from the encounter between the peoples of the Eastern and Western hemispheres.

• Columbian Exchange
• Representative Government
• Magna Carta
• Parliament

3. Large estate farmed by many workers.

• Burgess
• House of Burgesses
• Plantation
• Colony

4. An agreement between nations to aid and protect one another.

• Charter
• Mayflower Compact
• Magna Carta
• Alliance

5. Legal document giving certain rights to a person or company.

• Charter
• Alliance
• Mayflower Compact
• Magna Carta

8. Political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.

• Columbian Exchange
• Mayflower Compact
• Magna Carta
• Representative Government

9. Signed in 1215, a British document that contained 2 basic ideas: monarchs themselves have to obey the laws, and citizens have basic rights.

• Burgess
• Magna Carta
• Charter
• Parliament

10. Representative assembly in England.

• Alliance
• Colony
• Pilgrims
• Parliament

11. In the 1600s, English settlers who sought religious freedom in the Americas.

• Colony
• Pilgrims
• Burgess
• Parliament

12. A 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth Colony.

• Mayflower Compact
• Magna Carta
• Thanksgiving
• Columbian Exchange