Unit 1: Definitions

1. a trade product sent to markets outside a country
6. colony under the direct control of the English crown
7. laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights
9. a religious movement in the English colonies in the mid 1700s, also known as the First Great Awakening
11. a 1670 revolt of Virginia colonists against the their government
14. a group of English protestants who settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
15. large estate farmed by many workers
17. a 1639 plan for government in the Puritan colony in Connecticut
19. trade products brought into a country
20. English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment
21. the theory that a nation's economic strength came from selling more than it bought from other nations
22. a 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth colony
25. legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

2. movement to reform the Roman Catholic Church in the 1500s; led the creation of many different Christian Churches
3. Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people
4. group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by the government of their native land
5. a waterway through or around North America
8. a crop sold for money at market
10. the movement in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason
12. a plant used to make a valuable blue dye
13. name for Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain
16. the global exchange of goods and ideas resulting from the encounter between people from the Eastern and Western hemispheres
18. a English settler who sought religious freedom in the Americas
23. mistreatment or punishment of a group because of their beliefs
24. the colonial trade route between New England, Africa, and the West Indies