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A Spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain

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Conquistador

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A person from Spain who held a position of power in a spanish colony

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Peninsular

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A town in the Spanish colonies; a village or town of the Anasazi or other American Indian groups in the American Southwest

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Pueblo

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A person born in Spain’s American colonies to Spanish parents

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Creole

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A fort where soldiers lived in the Spanish Colonies

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Presidio

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In Spain’s American colonies, a person of mixed Spanish and Indian background

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Mestizo

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A religious settlement run by Catholic priests and friars; a settlement that aims to spread a religion into a new world

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Mission

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A waterway through or around North America

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Northwest Passage

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A political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them

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Representative Government

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A French colonist who lived in the lands beyond French settlements as a fur trapper

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Coureurs de Bois

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An agreement between nations to aid and protect one another

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Alliance

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A 1676 revolt of Virginia Colonists against the colony’s government.

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

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Charter

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A representative to the colonial Virginia government

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Burgess

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An English settler who sought religeous freedom in the Americas in the 1600s

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Pilgrim

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A group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Puritans

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The mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs

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Persecution

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The elective representative assembly of the Massechusetts Bay Colony

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General Court

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The willingness to let others practice

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Religeous tolerance

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A 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth colony

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Mayflower compact

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a meeting in colonial New England where settlers discussed and voted on local government matters

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town meeting

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an English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment

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proprietary colony

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Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people

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quaker

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German-speaking Protestants who settled in Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania Dutch

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a crop sold for money at market

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cash crop

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a 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians

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Act of Tolerance

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laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights

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Slave code

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a plant used to make a valuable blue dye

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Indigo

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the belief that one race is superior to another

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Racism

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a person who cannot pay money he or she owes

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Debtor

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the highest social class in the English colonies

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Gentry

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a person who learns a trade or craft from a master

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Apprentice

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in the English colonies, a class that included skilled craft workers, farmers, and some tradespeople

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middle class

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a school run by women, usually in their own homes

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Dame school

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the movement in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason

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enlightenment

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a religious movement in the English colonies in the mid-1700s, also known as the First Great Awakening

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Great Awakening

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the act of publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a person’s reputation

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libel

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the theory that a nation’s economic strength came from selling more than it bought from other nations

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Mercantilism

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a group of people, usually elected, who have the power to make laws

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Legistlature

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a trade product sent to markets outside a country

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export

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in 1688, the movement that brought William and Mary to the throne of England and strengthened the rights of English citizens

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Glorious Revelutions

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trade products brought into a country

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import

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a series of English laws beginning in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies

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Navigation Acts

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the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution

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Bill of Rights

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a nickname for New Englanders

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Yankee

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a 1689 document that guaranteed the rights of English citizens

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English Bill of Rights

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