Colonial Vocab

Question 1

Charter

Answer 1

A document granting a person or group the right te organize settlements in an area.

Question 2

House of Burgesses

Answer 2

Elected representatives that made laws in Colonial Virginia

Question 3

Puritans

Answer 3

Protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican Church

Question 4

Separatists

Answer 4

Protestants who wanted to leave the Anglican Church and set up their own

Question 5

Pilgrims

Answer 5

Separatists who traveled to the Colonies for a religious purpose and settled in Massachusetts

Question 6

Mayflower Compact

Answer 6

A formal document written in 1620that provided law and order in the Plymouth

Question 7

Persecute

Answer 7

To treat someone unfairly because of that person’s beliefs or practices

Question 8

Toleration

Answer 8

The acceptance of different beliefs

Question 9

Political

Answer 9

Having to do with the government

Question 10

Economic

Answer 10

Having to do with money

Question 11

Social

Answer 11

The educational, religious, and leisure aspects of a society

Question 12

Pacifist

Answer 12

A person opposed to using violence to settle disputes

Question 13

Triangular Trade

Answer 13

A trade route between the West I dies, the American colonies, and west Africa

Question 14

Middle Passage

Answer 14

The journey slaves took from Africa to the Americans

Question 15

Cash Crops

Answer 15

Crop raised to be sold for money

Question 16

Mercantilism

Answer 16

The theory that a nation’s power depends on its wealth

Question 17

Import

Answer 17

To buy goods from foreign markets

Question 18

Export

Answer 18

To sell goods to foreign markets

Question 19

Jamestown

Answer 19

Settled in 1607. The first permanent England settlement in North America

Question 20

Plymouth

Answer 20

Settled in 1620 by the pilgrims. Firsts successful in Massachusetts