Test #1

Question 1

Front tier region located along the eastern slope of the appalachian mountains

Answer 1

Back country

Question 2

A new settlement or territory established by and governed by a country in another land

Answer 2

Colony

Question 3

Conquer ,especially one of the 16th century Spanish soldiers who defeated Indian civilizations of Mexico/Central America

Answer 3

Conquistador

Question 4

Person who cannot pay his/her debts

Answer 4

Debtor

Question 5

A period of deep intellectual thinking that spread from Europe to the colonies

Answer 5

Enlightenment

Question 6

A religious movement that spread through American colonies in the 18th century and encouraged citizens to question authority

Answer 6

Great awakening

Question 7

Person who signs a contract to work for a number of years in exchange for ocean passage to the colonies

Answer 7

Indentured servant

Question 8

Economic policy that held a nation prospered by exporting more goods to foreign nations that it imported from them.

Answer 8

Mercantilism

Question 9

Water route around north America

Answer 9

Northwest passage

Question 10

The British law making body

Answer 10

Parliament

Question 11

Person who takes a religious journey

Answer 11

Pilgrim

Question 12

Large estate farmed by many workers

Answer 12

Plantation

Question 13

English colony in which the king gave the land to water more propitaions or owners in exchange for a yearly payment

Answer 13

Proprietary colony

Question 14

English dissenters who wanted to reform the church of England

Answer 14

Puritans

Question 15

The treatment of people as property for the purpose of forcing them to do labor based on the specific race

Answer 15

Race-based slavery

Question 16

Colony under direct rule of the English crown

Answer 16

Royal colony

Question 17

A group of the 16th and 17th century England Protestants who preferred to separate from rather than reform the church of England;became known as the pilgrims

Answer 17

Separatists

Question 18

Set of laws during the colonial period and/or individual states after the American revolution. Defined rights of slaves, responsibilities of slave owners.

Answer 18

Slave code

Question 19

A form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as a supreme civil ruler

Answer 19

Theocracy

Question 20

A meeting of the voters of a town for the transaction of public business

Answer 20

Town meeting

Question 21

A multiparty system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country By exports to another

Answer 21

Triangular trade

Question 22

Type of Christianity in England also known as the Church of England; formed by the king and Queen of England during the Protestant Reformation

Answer 22

Anglican