7365778567 | Marco Polo | Italian explorer who wrote about his travels to Central Asia and China. | 0 | |
7365778568 | Pocahontas | chief powhatan's daughter married john rolfe | 1 | |
7365778569 | Montezuma | Leader of the Aztecs when they were invaded by Cortez | 2 | |
7377811382 | Christopher Columbus | Found the New World for Spain in 1492 | 3 | |
7377811383 | Treaty of Tordesillas | Pope divided the land of South America between Spain and Portugal | 4 | |
7377811384 | Mestizos | people of Native American and European descent | 5 | |
7377811385 | Spanish Armada | Ships sent by King Philip 2 of Spain to invade England in 1588 | 6 | |
7377811386 | Black Legend | the image of Spain as a uniquely brutal and exploitative colonizer | 7 | |
7377811387 | Conquistadors | Spanish explorers who conquered people in central and South America | 8 | |
7377811388 | Joint stock company | To gather savings from the middle class to support financial colonies | 9 | |
7377811389 | Encomienda System | the right to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans in a particular area. | 10 | |
7377811390 | John Rolfe | Learned now to grow and cure tobacco; married Pocahontas | 11 | |
7377811391 | Sir Walter Raleigh | founder of first English colony on Roanoke island which failed | 12 | |
7377811392 | James Oglethorpe | Founder of Georgia | 13 | |
7377811393 | John Smith | leader of the Jamestown colony | 14 | |
7377811394 | House of Burgesses | the first law-making assembly in an English colony | 15 | |
7377811395 | Slave codes | the laws passed in the Southern states that controlled and restricted enslaved people | 16 | |
7377811396 | Proprietor (n) | Person who granted charters of ownership by the king | 17 | |
7377811397 | indentured servant | A person who is bonded or contracted to work for another for a specified time | 18 | |
7377811398 | Starving Time | Colonists died because they couldn't obtain food in the new world; winter of Virginia | 19 | |
7377811399 | Act of Toleration | a 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians | 20 | |
7377811400 | Iroquois League | political alliance of five Iroquois groups, known as the Five Nations, in the late 1500s | 21 | |
7377811401 | Anne Hutchinson | Religious dissenter Banished from Mass. Bay Colony for heresy | 22 | |
7377811402 | Roger Williams | Puritan minister who was banished from Massachusetts and established Rhode Island | 23 | |
7377811403 | William Bradford | Governor of Plymouth Rock | 24 | |
7377811404 | William Penn | Quaker who established Pennsylvania | 25 | |
7377811405 | John Winthrop | Puritan governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Speaker of "City upon a hill" | 26 | |
7377811406 | The Elect | Developed by John Calvin that some people were predestined to go to heaven | 27 | |
7377811407 | Predestination | Calvin's religious theory that God has already planned out a person's life. | 28 | |
7377811408 | Pilgrims | Separatists; Proved people can live in the New world | 29 | |
7377811409 | Calvinism | a Protestant denomination of Christian faith founded by John Calvin | 30 | |
7377811410 | Massachusetts Bay Colony | Puritan colony in New England | 31 | |
7377811411 | The Puritans | Religious reformists who wants to purify the Anglican Church | 32 | |
7377811412 | Separatists | Pilgrims that claimed they were too strong to be discouraged by minor problems | 33 | |
7377811413 | Quakers | Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people | 34 | |
7377811414 | Protestant Ethic | Commitment made by Puritans where they dwell on pursuing worldly affairs | 35 | |
7377811415 | Mayflower Compact | A legal contract in which voyagers agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good | 36 | |
7377811416 | Fundamental Orders | First constitutions in the colonies made by Connecticut river colony settlers | 37 | |
7377811417 | William Berkeley | British colonial governor of Virginia; bacon's rebellion | 38 | |
7377811418 | Head right system | Way to attract immigrants; mainly in the southern colonies | 39 | |
7377811419 | Stono Rebellion | slave rebellion in South Carolina in 1739 | 40 | |
7377811420 | Bacon's Rebellion | Uprising against William Berkeley | 41 | |
7377811421 | Halfway Covenant | Puritan Church document | 42 |
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