Name
Date
Class
Vocabulary Activity 3
Colonial Ways of Life, 1607–1763
DIRECTIONS: Circle the term that best fits each description. Then answer the questions at the
bottom of the page on a separate sheet of paper.
1. Skilled worker, such as a carpenter, mason, or glassmaker
A. selectmen
B. entrepreneur
C. artisan
2. A set of ideas about the economy, which emphasize a country selling more goods than
it buys
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A. capitalism
B. mercantilism
C. triangular trade
3. Someone who invests money in new businesses
A. capitalist
B. entrepreneur
C. selectman
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4. The men who were elected annually to manage colonial town affairs and appoint other
officials in the town
A. selectmen
B. entrepreneurs
C. representatives
5. The rights to life, liberty, and property, which John Locke asserted all people are born with
A. individual rights
B. natural rights
C. birth rights
6. Credit slips English merchants gave planters for their sugar
A. credit vouchers
B. merchant bills
C. bills of exchange
7. The difficult journey enslaved Africans endured in crossing the Atlantic to America
A. Middle Passage
B. Northwest Passage
C. Atlantic Passage
8. A three-way trade that exchanged goods between American merchants and two partners
A. triangular exchange
B. Columbian Exchange
C. triangular trade
A. town assembly
B. town meeting
C. house of burgesses
10. A set of laws in Virginia that formally regulated slavery and established the relationship
between enslaved Africans and free people
A. black code
B. slave code
C. freedmen’s code
11. Businesspeople who risk their money by purchasing goods to resell at a profit
A. furnishing merchant
B. artisan
C. entrepreneur
12. Explain how rationalism related to the Enlightenment.
13. Use the terms pietism and revival to describe the Great Awakening.
14. Write a paragraph about the society and economy of the South in the 1700s using the
following terms: cash crop, plantation, indentured servant, gentry, subsistence farming.
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9. A gathering of men to discuss problems and elect town leaders that developed into
local town government