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Unit test US
Unit 1 Test on Revo War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Great Awakening | A religous movement that swept acrosse the colonies from 1730s through the 1740s |
| Charter | An official document that gives a person a right to establish a colony |
| Migration | The Movement of people from one region to another |
| Triangular Trade | Trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, Africa, and the Colonies |
| Columbian Exchange | The transfor of goods and disseases between Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas |
| Encomienda System | A system in Spanish America that gave settelers the right to tax the natives |
| Slave Codes | Laws passed in the colonies that controled slaves |
| English Bill of Rights | A shift of political power from Monarchy to a parliament |
| Indentured Servants | A colonist to the Americas that recieved a free passage but had to work for no pay for a certian amount of years |
| Mercineries | Hired foriegn soldiers |
| Quakers | A group that believed that there was salvation for everybody |
| Middle Passage | A voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas and the Indies |
| Loyalists | Colonists that sided with Britian in the revolutionary war |
| Capitol | Land or property that is used to gain more money |
| Plantations | A large farm that specializes in on cash crop |
| Patriots | American colonists that fought for indipendence |
| Bartolome De Las Casas | was one of the early Spanish visitors to the New World |
| Jamestown | The first colony in America |
| Stamp Act of 1765 | A law passed that said you have to pay taxes on paper items |
| Tea Act | Parliment allowing the British to sell there low price tea directly to the colonists |