Unit 1 Bayou Bridges Vocabulary Quiz review

Match the following words to their correct definitions

• difficult to locate

• monetary economy

• a system of trade for goods and services

• depletion

• relying chiefly on agriculture

• currency

• a reduction in quantity

• agrarian

• a system of money

• elusive

An imagined river passage through North America that Europeans believed would make travel between Europe and Asia faster and more efficient.

• archipelago

• Northwest Passage

• monetary economy

• agrarian

a chain of islands

• muntiny

• elusive

• archipelago

• Northwest Passage

the rebellion of a ship's crew against the captain

• elusive

• depletion

• agrarian

• mutiny

Match the following definitions to the correct words

• plantation

• a large farm where one or more crops are grown by a large number of laborers, then sold for a profit by the plantation owner

• indentured servitude

• a crop that is grown to be sold

• cash crop

• a system in which a worker agrees to work for an employer for a certain amount of time in exchange for payment in land

• capitalism

• an economic system in which resources and businesses are privately owned and prices are not controlled by the government

a representative to the legislature in colonial Virginia and Maryland

• burgess

• persecution

• Mayflower Compact

• banish

the cruel and unfair treatment of a group of people

• burgess

• persecution

• Mayflower Compact

• banish

An agreement for self-government signed by the Pilgrims on board the ship before landing in Plymouth

• burgess

• persecution

• Mayflower Compact

• banish

to require by law to leave a place

• burgess

• persecution

• Mayflower Compact

• banish