New England Colonies

Question 1

Navigation Acts

Answer 1

series of laws passed by British Parliament designed to control shipping out of the New England Colony.

Question 2

Stock

Answer 2

part ownership or claim in a corporation

Question 3

Charter

Answer 3

a written contract that grants people the right to found and settle a colony

Question 4

Parcel

Answer 4

a portion of land

Question 5

Protestant

Answer 5

one of the three major branches of Christianity. Created out of disputes with Roman Catholic Church

Question 6

Puritans

Answer 6

group of Protestants that broke away from the Church of England and settled in the New England Colony

Question 7

Ann Hutchinson

Answer 7

women who left the Puritan church to preach in her home. Found guilty of sedition by Puritan leaders

Question 8

Roger Williams

Answer 8

protestant minister found guilty of sedition. Believed in religious freedom and founder of the Baptist Church

Question 9

Salem Witch Trials

Answer 9

series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft

Question 10

King Phillips War

Answer 10

a conflict in the New England Colonies over land rights between Puritans and the Wampanoag Indians

Question 11

Mercantilism

Answer 11

a system that increases a nations wealth by limiting imports and increasing exports. It was the purpose of establishing colonies

Question 12

Merchants

Answer 12

people who are involved in the buying and selling of goods

Question 13

Representatives

Answer 13

a person who has been given power to act on the behalf of other people

Question 14

Sedition

Answer 14

the crime of working against the government

Question 15

Investors

Answer 15

a person who uses their money to buy shares in a company in the hopes of making a profit

Question 16

Separatists

Answer 16

a group of people who wanted to start a new religion different from the one that they are presently in

Question 17

Religious Extremism

Answer 17

the use of measures that are extreme or views that are radical based on religious beliefs

Question 18

Exports

Answer 18

goods that were send out of the colonies to foreign countries

Question 19

Imports

Answer 19

goods that were brought into the colonies from a foreign country

Question 20

Subsistence Farming

Answer 20

growing just enough food to support ones family

Question 21

Exiled

Answer 21

to be sent away from an area or land and prohibited to return