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a spanish explorer who claimed lands in america for spain

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conquistador

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A town in Spanish colonies

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Pueblo

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a religous settlement run by catholic priests and friars; a settlement that aims to spread a religion in a new area

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Mission

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waterway around north america

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Northwest Passage

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an agreement between nations to aid and protect one another

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Aliance

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A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

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Charter

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representatives to the government

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burgesses

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where voters elect representatives to make laws for them

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Representative government

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a 1676 revolt of virginia colonists against the colonists government

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Bacons rebelion

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an english setler who saught religous freedom in the americas in the 1600s

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Pilgram

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mistreament of punishment of a group of religous people because of their beleifs

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Persacution

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a 1620 agreement for ruling the plymouth

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Mayflower Compact

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a willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

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Religous Tolorence

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a 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians

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Act of tolerance

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the belief that one race is superior to another

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Racism

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laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights

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slave code

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in the English colonies, a class that included skilled craft workers, farmers, and some tradespeople

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middle classes

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a religious movement in the English colonies in the mid-1700s, also known as the First Great Awakening

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great awakening

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the movement in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason

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enlightenment

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the theory that a nation’s economic strength came from selling more than it bought from other nations

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mercantilism

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a series of English laws beginning in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies

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navigate acts

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a group of people who have the power to make laws

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legislator

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an English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment

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proprietary colony

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a colony under direct control of the English crown

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Royal colony

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a crop sold for money at market

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Cash crop

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