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Colonization Vocabulary Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name of the economic theory that states in order to increase wealth and power, a country must have a favorable balance of trade?

a)

Proprietary

b)

Mercantilism

c)

Charter

2.

Which type of colony was completely independent of the British crown?

a)

Royal colony

b)

Proprietary colony

c)

Charter colony

3.

Which type of colony was governed by individuals but had to provide political favors to the British crown?

a)

Royal colony

b)

Proprietary colony

c)

Charter colony

4.

Which type of colony was under total control of the British crown?

a)

Royal colony

b)

Proprietary colony

c)

Charter colony

5.

Group of shareholders who funded the colonists voyages. They expected a return on their money

a)

Joint-stock companies

b)

Monarchy

c)

Settlers

6.

Goods brought into a country from another country.

a)

Exports

b)

Imports

c)

Profit

7.

Goods produced in a country and sent out to another country.

a)

Exports

b)

Imports

c)

Profit

8.

An exchange of goods, ideas and skills from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa.

a)

Middle Passage

b)

Columbian Exchange

c)

Atlantic passage

d)

Pacific passage

9.

A crop raised and sold for money (examples: cotton, tobacoo, indigo)

a)

Food crops

b)

Meal crops

c)

Cash crops

10.

Something that drives people away from a place (bad)

a)

Pull factor

b)

Push factor

c)

Opportunity

d)

Profit

11.

Something that draws people to a new location (good)

a)

Pull factor

b)

Push factor

c)

War

d)

Famine

12.

A group of people leave their homeland to settle in a new land but are still connected to the parent nation

a)

Colonization

b)

Imperialism

c)

Mercantilism

d)

Middle Passage

13.

What was the trading system between the Americas, England and Africa called?

a)

Middle Passage

b)

West Indies Trade

c)

Virginia Company

d)

Triangle Trade

14.

The money left over after all costs have been paid

a)

Push/Pull factors

b)

Charter

c)

Profit

d)

Debt

15.

This is part of the Triangular Trade. A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America.

a)

Joint-Stock Companies

b)

Imperialism

c)

Charter

d)

Middle Passage