Chapter 2: American Experiments Flashcards
Casta System
a hierarchial system of racial classification developed by colonial elites in Latin America to make sense of the complex racial mixing
Columbian Exchange
the massive global exchange of living things, including peoples, animals, plants, and diseases, between the East and West Hemispheres
Mercantilism
a system of political economy based on government regulation
Joint-Stock Corporation
a financial organization that facilitated the colonization of North America. A number of investors pooled their capital and received shares of stock in the enterprise
House of Burgesses
organ of government in colonial Virginia made up of an assembly of representatives elected by the colony’s inhabitants.
Headright System
a system of land distribution, pioneered in Virginia, that granted land to anyone who paid the passage of a new arrival
Veoman
a landholder
