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Question 1

encomienda system

Answer 1

a slavery system used by spanish colonizers where native americans were given to colonists for labor.

Question 2

pueblo revolt

Answer 2

pueblo people get angry with the treatment of the spanish so they attack and kills spaniards. they get scared and move to santa fe where the pueblos lay siege causing the spaniards to flee to mexico. spanish come back twelve years later with much more respect.

Question 3

jamestown

Answer 3

in virginia. first permanent english settlement. result of england’s attempt at joint stock companies. established in may 1607.

Question 4

john smith

Answer 4

takes leadership in jamestown and saves it, “those who shall not work shall not eat.”

Question 5

john rolfe

Answer 5

saves jamestown the second time by discovering harvesting tobacco in 1616. now making profit and the english colonies begin.

Question 6

virginia house of burgesses

Answer 6

established in virginia in 1619. first legislative body in colonial america.

Question 7

mayflower compact

Answer 7

1620- the first agreement for self government in america. it was signed by the 41 men on the mayflower and set up government for the plymouth colony.

Question 8

william bradford

Answer 8

led the pilgrims and was the second governor of plymouth.

Question 9

plymouth plantation

Answer 9

the pilgrims’ settlement in massachusetes. founded in 1620.

Question 10

puritans

Answer 10

protestants that did not separate for the church of england but wanted to purify it.