Early Colonization Vocabulary

A joint stock company during colonial times is...

• a company that sells socks

• a company that invests in adventures in colonizing

• a company that creates stocks

• a company that sells manufactured goods

The Virginia Company was...

• A band of merry men

• A place people went for personal loans

• A place where people planned vacations

• A joint stock company that helped to find Jamestown

The House of Burgesses is...

• A house on Burgesses street

• Part of the Virginia General Assembly chosen by white male landowners

• A part of early government in Massachusetts

• A part of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

This document stated that people had the right to elect governors, judges, and a legislature, establishing the idea of self-government in the colonies.

• The Mayflower Compact

• The Virginia House of Burgesses

• The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• The Honor of Grayskull

The first representative assembly in the American colonies. Representatives immediately began to enact laws and to safeguard individual rights. Setting precedent in the colonies for individual rights protected by law.

• The Fundamental Orders of Compton

• The Bright Moon Compact

• The Virginia House of Burgesses

• The first Thanksgiving

An agreement that established the idea of self-government and majority rule. Signed by most of the men on the Mayflower, this compact was an agreement to form a political body and give it the power to enact laws for the good of the colony. It provided a model for later development of representative government. A social contract where all agreed to abide by these rules.

• The Mayflower Compact

• The Virginia House of Burgesses

• The Proclamation of 1763

• The Treaty of Versailles

Who were the Puritans?

• Religious Separatists

• Pilgrims

• Believed in religious freedom from the church of England

• All of the above

Who were the Quakers?

• Founded Pennsylvania

• Religious group that had self-government

• Value all people

• All of the above

What is colonization?

• Going to a new place

• A vacation

• A practice from Portugal

• State sponsored settlement of people to new territories

What is Mercantilism?

• A system of government in South America.

• A system of imprisonment in the Netherlands.

• An economic system based on making the "mother" country richer and more powerful

• A system of oppressive trade between two European nations.