Ch.3

Question 0

Turning point

Answer 0

Moment in history that marks a decisive change.

Question 1

Colony

Answer 1

Group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by the government of their native land.

Question 2

Circumnavigate

Answer 2

Sail completely around

Question 3

Colombian exchange

Answer 3

The global exchange of goods and ideas resulting from the encounter between the peoples of the eastern and western hemispheres

Question 4

Conquistador

Answer 4

Spanish explorers who claimed land in the Americas for Spain/ conquerors

Question 5

Pueblo

Answer 5

Towns in Spanish colonies

Question 6

Presidio

Answer 6

Forts where soldiers lived

Question 7

Mission

Answer 7

Religious settlements run by catholic priests and Friars

Question 8

Peninsulare

Answer 8

Person from Spain who held a position of power in a spanish colony

Question 9

Creole

Answer 9

People born in the Americas to Spanish parents

Question 10

Mestizo

Answer 10

People of mixed Spanish and Indian background

Question 11

Encomienda

Answer 11

Land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes from native Americans

Question 12

Plantation

Answer 12

Large estate farmed by many workers

Question 13

Northwest passage

Answer 13

Waterway through or around North America

Question 14

Protestant reformation

Answer 14

Movement to reform the Roman Catholic Church in the 1500s;led to the creation of many different Christian churches

Question 15

Coureur de bois

Answer 15

Runners of the woods

Question 16

Missionary

Answer 16

Person who goes to another land to win converts for a religion

Question 17

Alliance

Answer 17

An agreement between nations to aid and protect one another

Question 18

Charter

Answer 18

A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

Question 19

Burgess

Answer 19

Representatives to the government

Question 20

House of burgesses

Answer 20

Representative assembly in colonial Virginia

Question 21

Representative government

Answer 21

Voters elect representatives to make laws for them

Question 22

Magna Carta

Answer 22

Signed in 1215, a British document that contains two basic ideas:monarchs themselves have to obey the laws, and citizens have basic rights. (Great charter)

Question 23

Parliament

Answer 23

Representative assembly in England

Question 24

Pilgrims

Answer 24

In 1600s English settlers who sought religious freedom in the Americas

Question 25

Established church

Answer 25

Chosen religion of a state

Question 26

Persecution

Answer 26

The mistreatment of punishment of certain people because of their beliefs.

Question 27

Mayflower compact

Answer 27

A 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth colony signed by pilgrims before they landed at Plymouth.

Question 28

Precedent

Answer 28

Example for others to follow in the future.

Question 29

Thanksgiving

Answer 29

Day at the end of the harvest season set aside by the pilgrims to give thanks to God.