13 Colonies Vocabulary Review

A group of people who settle in a distant land and are ruled by the government of their native land (where they came from)

• Parliament

• Colony

• Charter

• Indigo

A written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony.

• Colony

• Mayflower Compact

• Patroon

• Charter

England's chief lawmaking body.

• Paliament

• House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

• Mercantilism

Created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American Colonies.

• Navigation Acts

• Puritans

• Parliament

• House of Burgesses

An agreement established by the men who sailed to America on the Mayflower, which called for laws for the good of the colony and set forth the idea of self-government.

• Navigation Acts

• Mayflower Compact

• Slave Codes

• Charter

Group of English Protestants who settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

• Puritans

• Parliament

• Patroon

• Colony

In 1640, approximately 15,000 Puritans went from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

• Charter

• Middle Passage

• Great Migration

• Triangular Trade

An economic system in which nations increase their wealth and power by obtaining gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade.

• Mercantilism

• Indigo

• Navigation Acts

• Patroon

To bring goods INTO a country.

• Charter

• Export

• Import

• Patroon

To send goods OUT of a country into another country.

• Export

• Import

• Cash Crop

• Toleration