Exploration Quiz

an economic theory that held that colonies helped a country become wealthy by providing resources and markets for goods produced in the home country.

• Mayflower Compact

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Mercantilism

• assembly

The growth of cultivated land (arable land, pastures, etc.)

• Mayflower Compact

• immigrant

• export

• agricultural expansion

1620 document signed by the Pilgrims aboard the ship the Mayflower in which the signers agreed to unite as a single political body and to abide by decisions made by the group.

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

• assembly

• cash crop agriculture

Virginia colonial assembly; the first elected law-making body in the colonies and the earliest instance of representative government there.

• mercantilism

• cash crop agriculture

• charter

• Virginia House of Burgesses

A document granting certain specified rights, powers, privileges, or functions from the sovereign power of a state (country) to an individual or company.

• church doctrine

• export

• charter

• immigrant

Crops that are grown specifically to be sold in a marketplace or traded; essentially a crop grown not for direct consumption by the farmer.

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• assembly

• cash crop agriculture

• mercantilism

To settle in, and take control of, land outside your own territory.

• colonize/ colonization

• church doctrine

• assembly

• agricultural expansion

To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

• Mayflower Compact

• church doctrine

• immigrant

• exploration

A deliberative body of persons, usually elected, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state.

• natural harbor

• legislature

• overpopulation

• profit

Is the freedom for everyone to practice his or her religion.

• revenue

• Freedom of libertiy

• religious freedom

• trade