Colonial America Quiz

A document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government.

• colony

• mercantilism

• triangular trade

• Mayflower Compact

A group of people who settle in a new territory and maintain ties to their home country.

• colony

• plantation

• charter

• pilgrim

An official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony.

• charter

• mercantilism

• indentured servant

• salutary neglect

A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies.

• triangular trade

• Middle Passage

• Mayflower Compact

• plantation

A large farm that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop for profit.

• colony

• plantation

• charter

• mercantilism

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

• indentured servant

• pilgrim

• charter

• salutary neglect

An economic policy that colonies existed to make their parent country wealthy.

• mercantilism

• triangular trade

• Middle Passage

• charter

Trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, and Africa.

• triangular trade

• Middle Passage

• mercantilism

• plantation

An English policy of relaxing the enforcement of regulations in its colonies in return for the colonies’ continued economic loyalty.

• salutary neglect

• charter

• mercantilism

• indentured servant

A member of a Puritan Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600s to settle in the Americas.

• pilgrim

• colony

• charter

• plantation