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The Colonies Vocab

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
A business formed by a group of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses.
a)
Joint-Stock Company
b)
Headright System
c)
General Court
d)
Fundamental Orders
2.
A colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years.
a)
Slave
b)
Indentured Servant
c)
Puritans
d)
Proprietors
3.
A system in Virginia where a colonists who paid their own way to travel to a colony from Europe received 50 acres of land.
a)
Joint-Stock Company
b)
General Court
c)
Headright System
d)
Fundamental Orders
4.

An owner of a business or property

a)

Joint-Stock Company

b)

Proprietor

c)

Puritans

d)

Dissenter

5.

Laws passed in the colonies to control slaves

a)

General Court

b)

Fundamental Orders

c)

Slave Codes

d)

Dissenter

6.

Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England

a)

Catholics

b)

Methodists

c)

Puritans

d)

Pilgrims

7.
A method of making rules in a community that involves selecting a leader to speak on the behalf of your part of the community.
a)
Representative Government
b)
General Court
c)
Fundamental Orders
d)
Socialism
8.

A belief that that allowed many different religions worshiped in a community.

a)

Representative Government

b)

Religious Tolerance

c)

Fundamental Orders

d)

Dissenter

9.

A member of a Puritan group that left England in the early 1600s to setle in America.

a)

Catholics

b)

Quakers

c)

Pilgrims

d)

Puritans

10.

A document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a community and setting rules for self-government.

a)

Fundamental Orders

b)

General Court

c)

Mayflower Compact

d)

Headright System

11.
A person who speaks out against an institution. Someone who wants an organization to change.
a)
Dissenter
b)
Socialist
c)
Quaker
d)
Indentured Servant
12.

To have two groups of people make rules or laws for a community<br />

a)

Unicameral

b)

Bicameral

c)

Tricameral

d)

General Court

13.

A Puritain group whose members believed in equality and that all people could reach salvation.

a)

Catholics

b)

Pilgrims

c)

Quaker

d)

Puritans

14.
A crop that is continuously in demand (Corn, Wheat, Oats).
a)
Staple Crops
b)
Cash Crops
c)
Rotating Crops
d)
Hardy Crops
15.
Reasons people leave their homeland.
a)
Push Factors
b)
Pull Factors
c)
Fundamental Orders
d)
Dissenter
16.

Reasons people are attracted to move to a new location.

a)

Push Factors

b)

Pull Factors

c)

Fundamental Orders

d)

Dissenter