STAAR Vocab #1 Exploration and Colonization

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

• House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Order of Connecticut

• Magna Carta

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

• Spain

• France

• England

country that operated fur-trading outposts in area northwest of the Appalachian Mountains

• Spain

• France

• England

self-governing agreement reached by the Pilgrims at Cape Cod in 1620

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• House of Burgesses

Large farming operations primarily located in the southern colonies.

• Exploration

• Colonization

• Plantation

• Columbian Exchange

government control by those who are most immediately affected and influenced

• representative government

• exploration

• plantations

• self government

Freedoms given to people as individuals not to be taken by the government

• social benefit

• religious freedom

• individual rights

• colonization

Colonization for the purpose of wealth creation.

• exploration

• social benefit

• economic gain

• colonization

a motive for colonization that establishes a particular societal structure

• individual rights

• economic gain

• social benefit

• Columbian exchange

exchange of resources and goods between Europe and North America after 1492

• Exploration

• Columbian Exchange

• economic gain

• slave trade