Test #1 Flashcards
(22 cards)
Front tier region located along the eastern slope of the appalachian mountains
Back country
A new settlement or territory established by and governed by a country in another land
Colony
Conquer ,especially one of the 16th century Spanish soldiers who defeated Indian civilizations of Mexico/Central America
Conquistador
Person who cannot pay his/her debts
Debtor
A period of deep intellectual thinking that spread from Europe to the colonies
Enlightenment
A religious movement that spread through American colonies in the 18th century and encouraged citizens to question authority
Great awakening
Person who signs a contract to work for a number of years in exchange for ocean passage to the colonies
Indentured servant
Economic policy that held a nation prospered by exporting more goods to foreign nations that it imported from them.
Mercantilism
Water route around north America
Northwest passage
The British law making body
Parliament
Person who takes a religious journey
Pilgrim
Large estate farmed by many workers
Plantation
English colony in which the king gave the land to water more propitaions or owners in exchange for a yearly payment
Proprietary colony
English dissenters who wanted to reform the church of England
Puritans
The treatment of people as property for the purpose of forcing them to do labor based on the specific race
Race-based slavery
Colony under direct rule of the English crown
Royal colony
A group of the 16th and 17th century England Protestants who preferred to separate from rather than reform the church of England;became known as the pilgrims
Separatists
Set of laws during the colonial period and/or individual states after the American revolution. Defined rights of slaves, responsibilities of slave owners.
Slave code
A form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as a supreme civil ruler
Theocracy
A meeting of the voters of a town for the transaction of public business
Town meeting
A multiparty system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country By exports to another
Triangular trade
Type of Christianity in England also known as the Church of England; formed by the king and Queen of England during the Protestant Reformation
Anglican
