The American Colonies Emerge - Chapter 2 Flashcards
To understand the reasons for the European colonization of the Americas, as well as how the original 13 English colonies took hold in what is now the United States.
Spanish explorer
Conquistador
Conquistador who defeated the Aztecs
Hernándo Cortés
Spanish colony in the New World
New Spain
Person of mixed Spanish and Native American descent
Mestizo
Brutal Spanish system of using Native Americans for labor
Encomienda
Conquistador who explored present-day Florida
Juan Ponce de León
Spanish colonies in North America
New Mexico
Pueblo religious leader who led an uprising against the Spanish
Popé
Leader of Jamestown
John Smith
Companies in which investors pooled their wealth with the hope of yielding a profit
Joint-stock companies
First permanent English settlement in North America
Jamestown
Native Americans who lived in the area that became Jamestown
Powhatan
The Virginia Company’s system in which settlers and the family members who came with them each received 50 acres of land
Headright system
Workers who exchanged their labor for help getting started in America
Indentured Servants
A colony under the direct control of a monarch
Royal colony
Planter who led a rebellion in 1676 against the governor of the Virginia Colony
Nathaniel Bacon
Members of a religious group known for its strict beliefs
Puritans
Leader of the first settlers at Massachusetts Bay Colony
john Winthrop
Members of a Puritan group who established their own congregations
Separatists
Second permanent English colony in North America founded by the Pilgrims
Plymouth Colony
Colony founded by Puritans in 1630
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Puritan dissenter who set up a new colony in Rhode Island
Roger Williams
Puritan dissenter banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony who fled to Rhode Island in 1638
Anne Hutchinson
A 1637 conflict in which Pequots battled Connecticut colonists
Pequot War
