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Exploration and Colonization Vocabulary

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Representative Government

a)

political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws

b)

1620: English settlers who sought religious freedom in the Americas

c)

legislature in England

d)

Product, service, or goods. Something you can buy, sell, or trade.

2.

Magna Carta

a)

A 1620 SOCIAL CONTRACT for ruling the Plymouth Colony signed by Pilgrims

b)

Signed in 1215, a British document that stated Monarchs have to obey the laws and citizens have basic rights

c)

the mistreatment of people because of their beliefs.

d)

Lands settled by a mother country to gain power and wealth.

3.

Mayflower Compact

a)

Representative assembly in colonial Virginia

b)

Willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

c)

A natural waterway through or around North America

d)

A 1620 SOCIAL CONTRACT for ruling the Plymouth Colony signed by Pilgrims before they landed at Plymouth

4.

House of Burgesses

a)

igned in 1215, a British document that stated Monarchs have to obey the laws and citizens have basic rights

b)

Group of people who have the power to make laws

c)

Representative assembly in colonial Virginia

d)

a safe place or sanctuary, usually in a church.

5.

Columbian Exchange

a)

Willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

b)

Group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay

c)

A natural waterway through or around North America that did not exist

d)

The global exchange of goods and ideas resulting from the encounter between the Eastern and Western hemispheres.

6.

Pilgrims

a)

Group of people who have the power to make laws

b)

1620: English settlers who sought religious freedom in the Americas

c)

legislature in England

d)

Crop sold for money at market

7.

Puritans

a)

Person who cannot pay money he or she owes

b)

Group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630

c)

a safe place or sanctuary, usually in a church.

d)

Willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

8.

Northwest Passage

a)

A natural waterway through or around North America that did not exist

b)

Group of people who have the power to make laws

c)

Lands settled by a mother country to gain power and wealth.

d)

A safe place or sanctuary, usually in a church.

9.

Protestant Reformation

a)

Movement to reform the Catholic Church in the 1500s that led to the creation of many different Christian churches

b)

Person who cannot pay money he or she owes

c)

Signed in 1215, a British document that st

d)

political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them

10.

Religious Tolerance

a)

Willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

b)

Group of people who have the power to make laws

c)

Person who cannot pay money he or she owes

d)

the mistreatment of people because of their beliefs.

11.

Persecution

a)

the European country that established a colony. The ruling power of a colony

b)

Crop sold for money at market

c)

Representative assembly in colonial Virginia

d)

the mistreatment of people because of their beliefs.

12.

Legislature

a)

Group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630

b)

A country’s church that the government (King) says everyone will belong to

c)

political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them

d)

the mistreatment of people because of their beliefs.

13.

Parliament

a)

Legislature in England

b)

Product, service, or goods. Something you can buy, sell, or trade.

c)

the mistreatment of people because of their beliefs.

d)

Plant used to make a valuable blue dye

14.

Cash Crops

a)

Willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

b)

Plant used to make a valuable blue dye

c)

Crop sold for money at market

d)

Lands settled by a mother country to gain power and wealth.

15.

Indigo

a)

Plant used to make a valuable blue dye

b)

Group of people who have the power to make laws

c)

A country’s church that the government (King) says everyone will belong to

d)

a safe place or sanctuary, usually in a church

16.

Debtor

a)

political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them

b)

Person who cannot pay money he or she owes

c)

Product, service, or goods. Something you can buy, sell, or trade

d)

Representative assembly in colonial Virginia

17.

Colonies

a)

legislature in England

b)

Plant used to make a valuable blue dye

c)

Lands settled by a mother country to gain power and wealth.

d)

Product, service, or goods. Something you can buy, sell, or trade.

18.

Mercantilism

a)

An economic system where colonies are established to provide wealth to the “mother country”

b)

Lands settled by a mother country to gain power and wealth.

c)

the mistreatment of people because of their beliefs.

d)

Representative assembly in colonial Virginia

19.

Transatlantic Trade

a)

Lands settled by a mother country to gain power and wealth.

b)

Product, service, or goods. Something you can buy, sell, or trade.

c)

Colonial trade route between New England, the West Indies, and Africa.

d)

Crop sold for money at market

20.

Commodity

a)

Group of people who have the power to make laws

b)

Product, service, or goods. Something you can buy, sell, or trade.

c)

a safe place or sanctuary, usually in a church.

d)

Willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

21.

Mercantilism

a)

an economic system where colonies are established to provide wealth to the “mo

b)

Person who cannot pay money he or she owes

c)

political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them

d)

1620: English settlers who sought religious freedom in the Americas

22.

The Mother Country

a)

A country’s church that the government (King) says everyone will belong to

b)

Movement to reform the Catholic Church in the 1500s that led to the creation of many different Christian churche

c)

the European country that established a colony. The ruling power of a colony.

d)

Group of people who have the power to make laws

23.

Refuge

a)

a safe place or sanctuary, usually in a church.

b)

Lands settled by a mother country to gain power and wealth.

c)

Group of people who have the power to make laws

d)

Plant used to make a valuable blue dye