Chapter 3 Key Terms

Question 1

headright system

Answer 1

a system in which parcels of land were granted to settlers who could pay their own
way to Virginia

Question 2

indenture

Answer 2

a labor contract that promised young men, and sometimes women, money and land after they
worked for a set period of years

Question 3

Jesuits

Answer 3

members of the Society of Jesus, an elite Catholic religious order founded in the 1540s to spread
Catholicism and to combat the spread of Protestantism

Question 4

maroon communities

Answer 4

groups of runaway slaves who resisted recapture and eked a living from the land

Question 5

Middle Passage

Answer 5

the perilous, often deadly transatlantic crossing of slave ships from the African coast to
the New World

Question 6

musket

Answer 6

a light, long-barreled European gun

Question 7

patroonships

Answer 7

large tracts of land and governing rights granted to merchants by the Dutch West India
Company in order to encourage colonization

Question 8

repartimiento

Answer 8

a Spanish colonial system requiring Indian towns to supply workers for the colonizers

Question 9

Timucua

Answer 9

the native people of Florida, whom the Spanish displaced with the founding of St. Augustine,
the first Spanish settlement in North America

Question 10

wampum

Answer 10

shell beads used in ceremonies and as jewelry and currency