Colonial America

Question 1

Colony

Answer 1

An area or country occupied by settlers from another, often distant, country and ruled or controlled by that home country

Question 2

Exports

Answer 2

Goods produced within a country to be sold to other countries

Question 3

Mercantilism

Answer 3

trading for profit by producing and shipping more exports to increase a country’s wealth

Question 4

Indentured servants

Answer 4

Workers who signed a contract to work for a number of years to pay off debt, often their passage to the colonies

Question 5

Transatlantic slave trade

Answer 5

system of trade taking millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the American colonies

Question 6

Port city

Answer 6

A city where ships dock to load or unload goods for transport

Question 7

Plantation

Answer 7

An estate designed for large-scale farming using resident slave labor

Question 8

Cash crops

Answer 8

Products for commercial profit, not for use or consumption by the producer