American History Unit 1 Vocab Flashcards
An instrument used to navigate while sailing by using the stars.
Astrolabe
Spanish explorers in the Americas in the 1500’s
Conquistadors
Resistance to infection or disease
Immunity
A fleet of warships
Armada
A form of Christianity that began in opposition to the Catholic Church
Protestantism
A sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, located along the north coast of North America
Northwest passage
A document granting a group or a person the right to settle a colony.
Charter
A 50 acre grant of land given to colonial settlers that paid their own way to the New World
Headright
Elected representatives that made decisions for colonial British governments
Burgesses
A business in which investors buy stock in return for a share of future profits
Joint-stock company
To mistreat a person or group on the basis of their beliefs
Persecuted
The ability to accept and respect different views or behaviors
Tolerance
A person who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America.
Indentured servants
A detailed written plan for a government; a list of basic laws that support a government.
Constitution
A crop raised for sale in markets.
Cash Crops
A pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americas, Africa and Europe.
Triangular Trade
A system in which citizens elect a smaller group to make laws and conduct government on their behalf.
Representative government
An economic theory that a nation’s power depends on its ability to increase wealth by increasing exports and receiving precious metals.
Mercantilism
A group of people that maintain the culture of the first inhabitants of a land.
Indigenous
A land bridge that used to connect northeast Asia with northwest North America.
Beringia
