The Atlantic World - Chapter 20 Flashcards
Analyze the impact of European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
Buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas
Atlantic Slave Trade
Group of English people who founded a colony in Plymouth
Pilgrims
Italian explorer who landed in the Americas
Christopher Columbus
War between Britain and France over land in North America
French and Indian War
Area of the Americas explored and claimed by France
New France
European trade between the Americas, Africa, and Europe involving slaves and other goods
Triangular Trade
People who did not agree with the practices of the Church of England
Puritans
Conquistador who defeated the Inca
Francisco Pizarro
Voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and the Americas
Middle Passage
Spanish explorers in the Americas
Conquistadors
First permanent settlement in America
Jamestown
Dutch colony begun in modern New York City
New Netherland
Person with mixed Spanish and Native American blood
Mestizo
Land controlled by another nation
Colony
Conquistador who defeated the Aztec
Hernando Cortés