Lesson 2 Flashcards
a spanish explorer who claimed lands in america for spain
conquistador
A town in Spanish colonies
Pueblo
a religous settlement run by catholic priests and friars; a settlement that aims to spread a religion in a new area
Mission
waterway around north america
Northwest Passage
an agreement between nations to aid and protect one another
Aliance
A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company
Charter
representatives to the government
burgesses
where voters elect representatives to make laws for them
Representative government
a 1676 revolt of virginia colonists against the colonists government
Bacons rebelion
an english setler who saught religous freedom in the americas in the 1600s
Pilgram
mistreament of punishment of a group of religous people because of their beleifs
Persacution
a 1620 agreement for ruling the plymouth
Mayflower Compact
a willingness to let others practice their own beliefs
Religous Tolorence
a 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians
Act of tolerance
the belief that one race is superior to another
Racism
laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights
slave code
in the English colonies, a class that included skilled craft workers, farmers, and some tradespeople
middle classes
a religious movement in the English colonies in the mid-1700s, also known as the First Great Awakening
great awakening
the movement in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason
enlightenment
the theory that a nation’s economic strength came from selling more than it bought from other nations
mercantilism
a series of English laws beginning in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies
navigate acts
a group of people who have the power to make laws
legislator
an English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment
proprietary colony
a colony under direct control of the English crown
Royal colony
