Colonial Society
The willingness to let others practice their own beliefs.
Religious tolerance or Act of Toleration
Pilgrims came to America because
They wanted religious freedom
Colonial Spain's Motto.
Gold, God, and Glory
Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights.
Slave Codes
Reasons people came to America.
Were a religious group who believed in equality, that everyone (including women) were equal. Also believed in pacifism.
Quakers
The mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs
Persecution
Spanish colonizers
Conquistadors
White, Male, 21 or over
A waterway explorers believed to be through North America (It does not exist)
The Northwest Passage
If someone was an indentured servant, they belonged to this class
The lower class
The Mayflower Compact was
The reason the Spanish won over the Native Americans.
Weapons, armor, disease
Trade between the New England Colony, Africa, and Caribbean
Triangle Trade
A representative government
A political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.
The movement in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason.
The Enlightenment
The relationship most colonists had with Native Americans was hostile because
Colonists pushed Native Americans off of their own land
One of the empires the Spanish conquered.
Inca, Aztec, Maya
Protecting the rights of people, such as the right to a trial by jury.
The English Bill of Rights
Three different countries that had control over the colonies
England/The British, Spain, and France
Cash crops, or crops that made the colonies a lot of money
Tobacco, cotton, indigo
The main difference between Pilgrims and Puritans is
Puritans did not want to separate from the Church of England while the Pilgrims (or Separatists) did.
The reason the Spanish brought over Africans.
Natives kept dying, labor
The idea that people should be selling more than what they are buying. Thinking like a merchant.
Mercantilism
Bacon's Rebellion's importance.