Vocab Quiz Chapter 2 Flashcards
A Spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain
Conquistador
A town in the Spanish colonies; a village or town of the Anasaz or other American Indian groups in the American Southwest.
Pueblo
A religious settlement run by Catholic priests and a friars; a settlement that aims to spread religion into a new area.
Mission
A waterway through and around North America
Northwest passage
An agreement between nations to aid and protect one another.
Alliance
A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company.
Charter
A representative to the colonial Virginia government.
Burgress
A political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.
Representative Government
A 1676 revolt of Virginia colonists against the colony’s government.
Bacon’s rebellion
An English settler who sought religious freedom in the Americas in the 1600s
Pilgrim
The mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs.
Persecution
A 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth colony.
Mayflower Compact
The willingness to let others practice their own beliefs.
Religious tolerance
An English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for yearly payment.
Proprietary colony
A colony under direct control of the English crown
Royal colony
A crop sold for money at a market.
Cash crop
A 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians
Act of Toleration
Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights.
Slave code
The belief that one religion or race is superior to another.
Racism
In the English colonies, a class that included skilled craft workers, farmers and some trades people.
Middle Class
A religious movement in the English colonies in the mid-1700s.
Great awakening
The movement in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason.
Enlightenment
The theory that a nation’s economic strength came from selling more than it bought to the other nations.
Mercantilism
A series of English laws beginning in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and it’s colonies.
Navigation Acts
A group of people usually elect who have power to make laws.
Legislature
