American History Unit 1 Vocab

Question 1

An instrument used to navigate while sailing by using the stars.

Answer 1

Astrolabe

Question 2

Spanish explorers in the Americas in the 1500’s

Answer 2

Conquistadors

Question 3

Resistance to infection or disease

Answer 3

Immunity

Question 4

A fleet of warships

Answer 4

Armada

Question 5

A form of Christianity that began in opposition to the Catholic Church

Answer 5

Protestantism

Question 6

A sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, located along the north coast of North America

Answer 6

Northwest passage

Question 7

A document granting a group or a person the right to settle a colony.

Answer 7

Charter

Question 8

A 50 acre grant of land given to colonial settlers that paid their own way to the New World

Answer 8

Headright

Question 9

Elected representatives that made decisions for colonial British governments

Answer 9

Burgesses

Question 10

A business in which investors buy stock in return for a share of future profits

Answer 10

Joint-stock company

Question 11

To mistreat a person or group on the basis of their beliefs

Answer 11

Persecuted

Question 12

The ability to accept and respect different views or behaviors

Answer 12

Tolerance

Question 13

A person who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America.

Answer 13

Indentured servants

Question 14

A detailed written plan for a government; a list of basic laws that support a government.

Answer 14

Constitution

Question 15

A crop raised for sale in markets.

Answer 15

Cash Crops

Question 16

A pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americas, Africa and Europe.

Answer 16

Triangular Trade

Question 17

A system in which citizens elect a smaller group to make laws and conduct government on their behalf.

Answer 17

Representative government

Question 18

An economic theory that a nation’s power depends on its ability to increase wealth by increasing exports and receiving precious metals.

Answer 18

Mercantilism

Question 19

A group of people that maintain the culture of the first inhabitants of a land.

Answer 19

Indigenous

Question 20

A land bridge that used to connect northeast Asia with northwest North America.

Answer 20

Beringia