Vocab
Early Settlements
Colonial Regions
Triangular Trade
Mercantilism
100

A legal document issued by a king that gives permission for a group of people to create a colony.

What is a CHARTER?

100

These are the three settlements we studied

What are ROANOKE, JAMESTOWN, and PLYMOUTH.

100

This colonial region has the longest growing season, and produces the most crops.

What is the South?

100

These are the three continents the Triangular Trade was between.

What is Europe, Africa, and the Americas?

100

The term for the country who controls the trade of its colonies.

What is a Mother Country?

200

The definition of the word Indigenous

What is "people native to a place" (m/l)

200

This settlement was founded because the Pilgrims got lost at sea

What is PLYMOUTH?

200

This colonial region has a lot of cities and towns, and therefore a lot of city jobs.

What are the Middle Colonies?

200

When European empires expanded to the New World, they lacked this important resource.

What is a work force?

200

Which creates more wealth, exports or imports?

What are exports?
300

Crops grown for sale rather than for use

What is cash crops?

300

Where "He who does not work, does not eat" was the strict rule.

What is JAMESTOWN?

300

Consent of the governed developed in this colonial region.

What is New England?

300

This was the second stage of the Triangular Trade, when enslaved Africans were shipped to the Americas.

What is the Middle Passage?

300

These laws, passed beginning in 1651, limited trade in English colonies to English merchants.

What are the Navigation Acts?

400
The territory of a group of people who have left their native country to settle in a new place.
What is a COLONY?
400

This colony disappeared and is known as the Lost Colony

What is ROANOKE?

400

This colonial region was called the "Breadbasket" of the 13 colonies.

What is the Mid-Atlantic, or the Middle, Colonies?

400

What was sent from the Americas to Europe?

What are raw materials, like tobacco, cotton, and sugar?
400
Colonies provide these two things to the mother country.

What are natural resources and a market for finished goods?

500

Someone who travels to a foreign place, sometimes for religious reasons, not necessarily forever

What is a PILGRIM

500

A reason why some colonies were successful and others were not.

What is cooperation with the indigenous peoples?

500
This institution was necessary for the economic success of the Southern colonies.

What is slavery?

500

These factors led up to and fueled the Triangular Trade.

What are mercantilism, colonialism, and technology?

500

This is how mercantilism can lead to disagreements between colonists and the mother country.

What is... (this is an open-ended question)

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