Topic 2 Flashcards
A Spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain
Conquistador
A person from Spain who held a position of power in a spanish colony
Peninsular
A town in the Spanish colonies; a village or town of the Anasazi or other American Indian groups in the American Southwest
Pueblo
A person born in Spain’s American colonies to Spanish parents
Creole
A fort where soldiers lived in the Spanish Colonies
Presidio
In Spain’s American colonies, a person of mixed Spanish and Indian background
Mestizo
A religious settlement run by Catholic priests and friars; a settlement that aims to spread a religion into a new world
Mission
A waterway through or around North America
Northwest Passage
A political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them
Representative Government
A French colonist who lived in the lands beyond French settlements as a fur trapper
Coureurs de Bois
An agreement between nations to aid and protect one another
Alliance
A 1676 revolt of Virginia Colonists against the colony’s government.
Bacon’s Rebellion
A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company
Charter
A representative to the colonial Virginia government
Burgess
An English settler who sought religeous freedom in the Americas in the 1600s
Pilgrim
A group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Puritans
The mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs
Persecution
The elective representative assembly of the Massechusetts Bay Colony
General Court
The willingness to let others practice
Religeous tolerance
A 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth colony
Mayflower compact
a meeting in colonial New England where settlers discussed and voted on local government matters
town meeting
an English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment
proprietary colony
Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people
quaker
German-speaking Protestants who settled in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Dutch
a crop sold for money at market
cash crop
a 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians
Act of Tolerance
laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights
Slave code
a plant used to make a valuable blue dye
Indigo
the belief that one race is superior to another
Racism
a person who cannot pay money he or she owes
Debtor
the highest social class in the English colonies
Gentry
a person who learns a trade or craft from a master
Apprentice
in the English colonies, a class that included skilled craft workers, farmers, and some tradespeople
middle class
a school run by women, usually in their own homes
Dame school
the movement in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason
enlightenment
a religious movement in the English colonies in the mid-1700s, also known as the First Great Awakening
Great Awakening
the act of publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a person’s reputation
libel
the theory that a nation’s economic strength came from selling more than it bought from other nations
Mercantilism
a group of people, usually elected, who have the power to make laws
Legistlature
a trade product sent to markets outside a country
export
in 1688, the movement that brought William and Mary to the throne of England and strengthened the rights of English citizens
Glorious Revelutions
trade products brought into a country
import
a series of English laws beginning in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies
Navigation Acts
the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
Bill of Rights
a nickname for New Englanders
Yankee
a 1689 document that guaranteed the rights of English citizens
English Bill of Rights
