Unit 2/Colonial Vocabulary

A document granting a person or group the right to organize settlements in an area is called a ________.

• Charter

• Treaty

• License

• Decree

Elected representatives that made laws in Colonial Virginia are known as the ________.

• House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

• Continental Congress

• General Assembly

Protestants who wanted to REFORM the Anglican Church are called ________.

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Quakers

• Catholics

Protestants who wanted to LEAVE the Anglican Church and set up their own are called ________.

• Separatists

• Puritans

• Anglicans

• Quakers

________ are Separatists who traveled to the colonies for a religious purpose and settled in Massachusetts.

• Pilgrims

• Puritans

• Quakers

• Catholics

A formal document written in 1620 that provided law and order in Plymouth is called the ________.

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

To treat someone unfairly because of that person’s beliefs or practices is called ________.

• Religious Persecution

• Cultural Assimilation

• Economic Discrimination

• Political Favoritism

The acceptance of different beliefs is called ________.

• Toleration

• Discrimination

• Intolerance

• Prejudice

A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country is called a ________.

• Colony

• Republic

• Empire

• Confederation

The religious group led by William Penn that left England and settled in Pennsylvania is called the ________.

• Quaker

• Puritan

• Catholic

• Anglican