Colonial America Vocabulary Practice

What was the Virginia Company?

• A joint-stock company that began the settlement of Jamestown

• A law making assembly in colonial Virginia

• A wealthy land owner in southern colonies

• A peaceful religious group that settled mostly in Pennsylvania

What is a Joint Stock Company?

• A company in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profits

• A law making assembly in colonial Virginia

• An uprising in VA in which a group of angry farmers raided Native villages

• A revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1750s

What was the House of Burgesses?

• Law making assembly in colonial Virginia-Representative Democracy

• The first governing document of Plymouth Colony

• A government ran by religious authorities

• A multi-tribe alliance in which Indians fought the puritans

What was Bacon's Rebellion?

• An uprising in VA in which a group of angry farmers raided Native villages

• A war in the 1750s in which the British fought against the French and Native Americans

• A law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

• Laws that restricted trade between England and the colonies

Who were the Cavaliers?

• Wealthy land owners in southern colonies who were given land by the king

• Men or women who sold their labor for the cost of a trip from England to the Colonies

• A peaceful religious group that settled mostly in Pennsylvania

• Non Traditional women thought to be witches and punished by execution

What is an Indentured Servant?

• Men or women who sold their labor for the cost of a trip from England to the Colonies. Typically worked for 5-7 years

• A farm crop raised to be sold for money

• The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

• A revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1750s

What is a Cash Crop?

• Farm crop raised to be sold for money

• A company in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profits

• A law making assembly in colonial Virginia

• An uprising in VA in which a group of angry farmers raided Native villages

What was the Middle Passage?

• The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

• The first governing document of Plymouth Colony

• A government ran by religious authorities

• A multi-tribe alliance in which Indians fought the puritans

What was the Mayflower Compact?

• The first governing document of Plymouth Colony

• A law making assembly in colonial Virginia

• A company in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profits

• An uprising in VA in which a group of angry farmers raided Native villages

What is a Puritan Theocracy?

• A government ran by religious authorities. Religious men ran their government.

• A peaceful religious group that settled mostly in Pennsylvania

• Non Traditional women thought to be witches and punished by execution

• A revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1750s