Chapter 2 Vocabulary Flashcards
one of the Spaniards who traveled to the Americas as an explorer and conquered in the 16th century
Conquistador
of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry
Mestizo
a group of Native American peoples that lived in eastern Virginia at the time of the first English settlements there
Powhatan
the Virginia company’s policy of granting 50 acres of land to each settler and to each family member who accompanied him
Headright System
a Spanish viceroyalty of the 16th to 19th centuries, composed of Mexico, Central America north of Panama, the Spanish West Indies, the southwestern U.S, and the Philippines
New Spain
a person who has contracted to work for another for a limited period, often in return for travel expenses, shelter, and sustenance
Indentured Servants
a member of one of the Puritan groups that denied the possibility of reform within the Church of England, established their own independent congregations
Separatists
founded the state of Rhode Island and advocated for the separation of church and state in Colonial America
Roger Williams
Sachem (intertribal leader) of a confederation of indigenous peoples that included the Wampanoag and the Narraganset
Metacom
last ruler of the Aztec Empire before the collapse
Montezuma
members of the Society of Friends, a religious group persecuted for its beliefs in 17th-century England
Quakers
first Dutch colony in North America
New Netherland
a 1637 conflict in which the Pequot nation battled Connecticut colonists and their Narragansett allie’s
Pequot War
founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was governor of Massachusetts
John Winthrop
Spain used the city to defend the primary trade route to Europe along the Atlantic Ocean’s main west to east current, called the Gulf Stream
St. Augustine
