Unit 1: Chapter 1 Vocabulary Review

A profit would help governments provide for the ________ of their citizens.

• common good

• mercantilism

• common cause

• sanctuary

a northern ocean trade route around North America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

• Southeast Passage

• Columbian Passage

• Northwest Passage

• Northeast Passage

Benefit to all citizens or a community as a whole

• common cause

• common good

• mercantilism

• cite

As European nations colonized the Americas, they developed a policy of ________ by trading and selling resources.

• Northwest Passage

• cite

• mercantilism

• open trade

an economic policy where a nation can increase its wealth by creating and trading with colonies

• cite

• sanctuary

• common good

• mercantilism

living naturally in a particular region, native

• cite

• indigenous

• missionary

• sancutary

a person who attempts to convert people religiously

• missionary

• sanctuary

• persecute

• indigenous people

This political cartoon represents the idea of _____

• Northwest Passage

• mercantilism

• missionaries

SELECTED the three main reasons SPAIN explored America?

• Gold and Riches

• Fur, Fur and More Fur

• God and Spread Religion

• Glory and Competition

Once North & South America were discovered, many European explorers searched for the ____ to open up a new trade route to Asia.

• Northeast Passage

• Northwest Passage

• Mercantilism

• common good