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US History Semester 1 Vocab Activity

Total questions: 84

Worksheet time: 42mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes?

a)

Technology

b)

Biology

c)

Philosophy

d)

Art

2.

What is a navigation aid that shows the direction in which a person or vessel is traveling?

a)

Compass

b)

Barometer

c)

Altimeter

d)

Thermometer

3.

What is a narrow water passage between larger bodies of water called?

a)

Strait

b)

Peninsula

c)

Delta

d)

Bay

4.

What does it mean to go around completely?

a)

Circumnavigate

b)

Illuminate

c)

Accelerate

d)

Navigate

5.

What is the term for a Spanish explorer?

a)

Conquistador

b)

Samurai

c)

Viking

d)

Pharaoh

6.

What is the resistance to disease called?

a)

Immunity

b)

Infection

c)

Allergy

d)

Mutation

7.

What is the Spanish system to use enslaved natives in colonies called?

a)

Encomienda System

b)

Hacienda System

c)

Mita System

d)

Repartimiento System

8.

What is a town and center of trade in Spanish America called?

a)

Pueblo

b)

Estancia

c)

Mestizo

d)

Cabildo

9.

What is a Spanish community for the religious conversion and training of Native Americans called?

a)

Mission

b)

Presidio

c)

Pueblo

d)

Hacienda

10.

What is a fort in Spanish America called?

a)

Presidio

b)

Hacienda

c)

Pueblo

d)

Rancho

11.

What is a rigidly structured social system called?

a)

Caste System

b)

Democracy

c)

Meritocracy

d)

Oligarchy

12.

What do you call a person with Spanish parents born in the Americas?

a)

Creole

b)

Mestizo

c)

Mulatto

d)

Peninsular

13.

What is a person with one Spanish parent and one native parent born in the Americas called?

a)

Mestizo

b)

Peninsulare

c)

Mulatto

d)

Criollo

14.

What is a large farm called?

a)

Plantation

b)

Apartment

c)

Bakery

d)

Library

15.

What is a religious movement rejecting or changing some Roman Catholic teachings and practices and establishing the Protestant churches called?

a)

Reformation

b)

Renaissance

c)

Crusades

d)

Inquisition

16.

What is a form of Christianity that was in opposition to the Catholic Church called?

a)

Protestantism

b)

Orthodoxy

c)

Anglicanism

d)

Unitarianism

17.

What is a fleet of warships called?

a)

Armada

b)

Convoy

c)

Squadron

d)

Battalion

18.

What is a sea passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific along the north coast of North America called?

a)

Northwest passage

b)

Suez Canal

c)

Panama Canal

d)

Strait of Gibraltar

19.

What do you call a settler who paid the landowner an annual rent and worked for that lord for a fixed number of days each year?

a)

Tenant farmer

b)

Serf

c)

Sharecropper

d)

Indentured servant

20.

Producing just enough to meet immediate needs.

a)

Subsistence Farming

b)

Cash Crops

c)

Economy

d)

Triangle Trade

21.

term for what a country makes, sells, imports, and exports.

a)

Subsistence Farming

b)

Cash Crops

c)

Economy

d)

Triangle Trade

22.
  • a crop that can be sold easily in markets.

a)

Subsistence Farming

b)

Cash Crops

c)

Economy

d)

Triangle Trade

23.
  • trade route between three destinations, such as Britain, West Africa, and the West Indies.

a)

Subsistence Farming

b)

Cash Crops

c)

Economy

d)

Triangle Trade

24.

What types of items were sent from Europe to West Africa on the Triangle Trade?

a)

Guns, cloth, manufactured items

b)

Tobacco, sugar, raw materials

c)

Slaves, gold, ivory

25.

What types of items were sent from West Africa to the Americas on the Triangle Trade?

a)

Guns, cloth, manufactured items

b)

Tobacco, sugar, raw materials

c)

Slaves, gold, ivory

26.

What types of items were sent from the Americas to Europe on the Triangle Trade?

a)

Guns, cloth, manufactured items

b)

Tobacco, sugar, raw materials

c)

Slaves, gold, ivory

27.
  • variety, such as of ethnic or national groups.

a)

Diversity

b)

Slave Codes

c)

Syncretism

d)

Representative Government

28.
  • rule focusing on the behavior and punishment of enslaved people.

a)

Diversity

b)

Slave Codes

c)

Syncretism

d)

Representative Government

29.
  • Blending of two or more religions

a)

Diversity

b)

Slave Codes

c)

Syncretism

d)

Representative Government

30.
  • a system by which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government.

a)

Diversity

b)

Slave Codes

c)

Syncretism

d)

Representative Government

31.
  • Economic system where a country increases its wealth by selling exports for precious metals like gold and silver.

a)

Mercantilism

b)

Import

c)

Export

d)

Representative Government

32.
  • To sell things to another country or area.

a)

Mercantilism

b)

Import

c)

Export

d)

Representative Government

33.
  • To bring in items from another country or area.

a)

Mercantilism

b)

Import

c)

Export

d)

Representative Government

34.

the permanent movement of people into one country from other nations

a)

Immigrant

b)

Apprentice

c)

Militia

d)

Alliance

35.
  • the permanent movement of people into one country from other nations

  • a young person who learns a trade from a skilled craftsperson.

a)

Immigrant

b)

Apprentice

c)

Militia

d)

Alliance

36.
  • a military force made up of ordinary citizens.

a)

Immigrant

b)

Apprentice

c)

Militia

d)

Alliance

37.
  • group of Native American nations in eastern North America joined together under one general government.

a)

Immigrant

b)

Iroquois Confederacy

c)

Militia

d)

Alliance

38.
  • Partnership between countries.

a)

Immigrant

b)

Apprentice

c)

Militia

d)

Alliance

39.

an illness that affects large numbers of people.

a)

Epidemic

b)

Enlightenment

c)

Enrichment

d)

Enrollment

40.

European intellectual movement that emphasized reason and science over tradition

a)

Epidemic

b)

Enlightenment

c)

Enrichment

d)

Enrollment

41.

Incoming money from taxes or other sources

a)

Revenue

b)

Resolution

c)

Rebellion

d)

Repeal

42.

an official expression of opinion by a group

a)

Revenue

b)

Resolution

c)

Rebellion

d)

Repeal

43.
  • open defiance of authority

a)

Revenue

b)

Resolution

c)

Rebellion

d)

Repeal

44.
  • to cancel an act or law

a)

Revenue

b)

Resolution

c)

Rebellion

d)

Repeal

45.
  • to refuse to buy items in order to show disapproval or force acceptance of one’s terms.

a)

Revenue

b)

Boycott

c)

Propaganda

d)

Preamble

46.
  • ideas of information intentionally spread to harm or help a cause.

a)

Revenue

b)

Boycott

c)

Propaganda

d)

Preamble

47.
  • The introduction to a formal document that often tells why the documents was written.

a)

Revenue

b)

Boycott

c)

Propaganda

d)

Preamble

48.

court document allowing customs officers to enter any location to search for smuggled goods

a)

Writ of assistance

b)

Effigy

c)

Committee of correspondence

d)

Petition

49.

A formal request

a)

Writ of assistance

b)

Effigy

c)

Committee of correspondence

d)

Petition

50.

an organization that spread political ideas and information through the colonies.

a)

Writ of assistance

b)

Effigy

c)

Committee of correspondence

d)

Petition

51.

a mocking figure representing an unpopular individual

a)

Writ of assistance

b)

Effigy

c)

Committee of correspondence

d)

Petition

52.
  • civilian sworn to be ready to fight with only a moment’s notice.

a)

Minutemen

b)

Loyalist

c)

Patriot

d)

Colonist

53.
  • American colonist who opposed the war for independence and wanted to remain British citizens.

a)

Minutemen

b)

Loyalist

c)

Patriot

d)

Colonist

54.
  • American colonist who favored independence.

a)

Minutemen

b)

Loyalist

c)

Patriot

d)

Colonist

55.
  1. document that granted the right to form a colony.

a)

Charter

b)

Joint Stock Company

c)

Headright

d)

Burgesses

56.
  1. Agreement between a government and a group to establish a colony.

a)

Charter

b)

Joint Stock Company

c)

Headright

d)

Burgesses

57.
  1. company in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profit.

a)

Charter

b)

Joint Stock Company

c)

Headright

d)

Burgesses

58.
  1. Investors buy stock in company in exchange for percent of profits.

a)

Charter

b)

Joint Stock Company

c)

Headright

d)

Burgesses

59.
  1. 50-acre grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way

a)

Charter

b)

Joint Stock Company

c)

Headright

d)

Burgesses

60.
  1. Self funded settlers to the new world were gifted a piece of land

a)

Charter

b)

Joint Stock Company

c)

Headright

d)

Burgesses

61.
  1. elected representative to an assembly.

a)

Charter

b)

Joint Stock Company

c)

Headright

d)

Burgesses

62.
  1. Elected legislature in Virginia Colony

a)

Charter

b)

Joint Stock Company

c)

Headright

d)

Burgesses

63.

person or country that owes money.

a)

Indentured Servant

b)

Patroon

c)

Pacifists

d)

Debtor

64.

Someone who owes an amount of money to someone else.

a)

Indentured Servant

b)

Patroon

c)

Pacifists

d)

Debtor

65.

 people who refuse to use force or fight in wars.

a)

Indentured Servant

b)

Patroon

c)

Pacifists

d)

Debtor

66.

People who don't believe in violence or use of force.

a)

Indentured Servant

b)

Patroon

c)

Pacifists

d)

Debtor

67.

landowner in the Dutch colonies who ruled over large areas of land

a)

Indentured Servant

b)

Patroon

c)

Pacifists

d)

Debtor

68.

Person who owns a large piece of land in New Amsterdam.

a)

Indentured Servant

b)

Patroon

c)

Pacifists

d)

Debtor

69.

agreed to work in exchange for passage to colony

a)

Indentured Servant

b)

Patroon

c)

Pacifists

d)

Debtor

70.

Someone who agrees to work for someone in exchange for passage to the new world

a)

Indentured Servant

b)

Patroon

c)

Pacifists

d)

Debtor

71.

to disagree with or oppose an opinion.

a)

Dissent

b)

Self Government

c)

Persecute

d)

Tolerance

72.

To protest or stand against an opinion

a)

Dissent

b)

Self Government

c)

Persecute

d)

Tolerance

73.

government created by the people of the community

a)

Dissent

b)

Self Government

c)

Persecute

d)

Tolerance

74.

people of the area create their own government

a)

Dissent

b)

Self Government

c)

Persecute

d)

Tolerance

75.

to mistreat a person or group on the basis of their beliefs.

a)

Dissent

b)

Self Government

c)

Persecute

d)

Tolerance

76.

someone is mistreated or abused because of their background or beliefs

a)

Dissent

b)

Self Government

c)

Persecute

d)

Tolerance

77.

the ability to accept or put up with different views or behaviors

a)

Dissent

b)

Self Government

c)

Persecute

d)

Tolerance

78.

To deal with something you don't agree with or support

a)

Dissent

b)

Self Government

c)

Persecute

d)

Tolerance

79.

statement of ideals or plan of action

a)

Policy

b)

Constitution

c)

Popular Sovereignty

d)

Charter

80.

Action or principle followed by a government or group

a)

Policy

b)

Constitution

c)

Popular Sovereignty

d)

Charter

81.

list of fundamental laws to support a government

a)

Policy

b)

Constitution

c)

Popular Sovereignty

d)

Charter

82.

Document that outlines the framework of a government

a)

Policy

b)

Constitution

c)

Popular Sovereignty

d)

Charter

83.

the people create the government and laws

a)

Policy

b)

Constitution

c)

Popular Sovereignty

d)

Charter

84.

Government supported by the people

a)

Policy

b)

Constitution

c)

Popular Sovereignty

d)

Charter