Colonial Foundations Vocabulary

What is the term for 'a crop grown by a farmer for sale rather than for personal use'?

• cash crop

• staple crop

• cover crop

• subsistence crop

What is the establishment of outlying settlements by a parent country called?

• urbanization

• colonization

• industrialization

• federation

What 18th century intellectual movement emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method as means of obtaining knowledge?

• Industrial Revolution

• Enlightenment

• Renaissance

• Romanticism

What is the economic system in which nations seek to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade?

• capitalism

• feudalism

• mercantilism

• socialism

What is the term for the transportation of slaves from Africa to the West Indies?

• Columbian Exchange

• Middle Passage

• Triangular Trade

• Atlantic Drift

What was the order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains called?

• Townshend Acts

• Proclamation of 1763

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

What is the name for members of a group that wanted to eliminate all traces of Roman Catholic ritual and traditions in the Church of England?

• Quakers

• Puritans

• Jesuits

• Anglicans

What is the transfer—beginning with Columbus's first voyage—of plants, animals, and diseases between the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere called?

• Transatlantic Trade

• Columbian Exchange

• Atlantic Migration

• Age of Exploration

What is a colony, as New York, administered by a royal governor and council appointed by the British crown, and having a representative assembly elected by the people called?

• Royal Colony

• Charter Colony

• Proprietary Colony

• Corporate Colony

What was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony, written by the male passengers of the Mayflower called?

• Articles of Confederation

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut