Colonial America Vocabulary

A crop, such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton, raised in large quantities and sold for profit

A formal document issued by the king that outlined a colony’s geographic boundaries and specified how it would be governed

Ruled by the people. In this system, citizens elect representatives to make and carry out laws.

An agreement that Pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the Americas

An economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies

The business of capturing, transporting, and selling people as slaves

The way a society organizes the manufacture and exchange of things of value, such as money, food, products, and services

An act passed by Parliament in 1689 that limited the monarch’s power by giving certain powers to Parliament and listing specific rights of the citizens

A revival of religious feeling and belief in the American colonies that began in the 1730s

An agreement made in 1215 listing the rights granted by King John to all free men of the kingdom