Unit 2 Vocabulary

Question 1

Empire

Answer 1

an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.

Question 2

Imperialism

Answer 2

a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force

Question 3

Colony

Answer 3

a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

Question 4

Self-Government

Answer 4

government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony.

Question 5

Mercantilism

Answer 5

belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

Question 6

Plantation

Answer 6

a for-profit, agricultural estate usually worked by resident labor

Question 7

Quaker

Answer 7

a member of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian movement founded by George Fox c. 1650 and devoted to peaceful principles.

Question 8

Puritan

Answer 8

a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.

Question 9

Pilgrim

Answer 9

a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.

Question 10

Witch Hunt

Answer 10

a campaign directed against a person or group holding unorthodox or unpopular views.

Question 11

Push Factor

Answer 11

something that makes people want to leave a place or escape from a particular situation.

Question 12

Pull Factor

Answer 12

something that attracts people to a place or an activity.

Question 13

Triangle Trade

Answer 13

the 18th and 19th centuries that involved shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves, these slaves being shipped to the West Indies and exchanged for sugar, rum, and other commodities which were in turn shipped back to Britain.

Question 14

Middle Passage

Answer 14

the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.

Question 15

Slavery

Answer 15

the practice or system of owning slaves.

Question 16

Indentured Servant

Answer 16

a person who signs and is bound by indentures to work for another for a specified time especially in return for payment of travel expenses and maintenance

Question 17

Economics

Answer 17

a person who signs and is bound by indentures to work for another for a specified time especially in return for payment of travel expenses and maintenance

Question 18

Rule of Law

Answer 18

a political ideal that all citizens and institutions within a country, state, or community are accountable to the same laws, including lawmakers and leaders.

Question 19

Politics

Answer 19

the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.

Question 20

Class Hierarchy

Answer 20

a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories based on wealth and status.

Question 21

New England Colonies

Answer 21

Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, and New Hampshire; all defined by the coastal and maritime economies.

Question 22

Middle Colonies

Answer 22

Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware. European ethnic groups as diverse as English, Swedes, Dutch, Germans, Scots-Irish and French lived in closer proximity than in any location on continental Europe, leading to great tolerance.

Question 23

Southern Colonies

Answer 23

Maryland, Virginia, Carolina (in 1712 split into North and South Carolina), and Georgia. In 1763, East Florida and West Florida would be added to the Southern Colonies by Great Britain until the Spanish Empire took back Florida. Largely defined by their plantations, cash crops, loyalist sidings, and slavery.

Question 24

Frontier

Answer 24

the extreme limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness, especially referring to the western US before western migration and expansion.