2.1 Spain Claims an Empire
These were Spanish Soldiers that explored the Americas and claimed them for Spain.
Double Jeopardy
Conquistadors
This word means, to send abroad for trade or sale.
Export
The middle leg of the triangular trade route brought captured Africans to the Americans to serve as slaves.
Middle Passage
The separatist group that traveled to America to gain religious freedom.
Pilgrims
This explorer thought he knew a faster way to reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic.
Christopher Columbus
This was the first permanent French colony in North America
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
New France
These were laws passed to regulate the treatment of slaves
Slave Codes
English dissenters who wanted to reform the Church of England
Puritans
This was the economic system that increased money in a country’s treasury by creating a favorable balance of trade.
Mercantilism
The movement of plants, animals, and diseases between the Eastern and Western hemispheres was called what?
The Columbian Exchange
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Jamestown
This was the name of the group of Protestant dissenters.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Quakers
This was a person who was sent by the Church to convert Native Americans to Christianity
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Missionary
First permanent Dutch colony in North America
New Netherland
This was a written contract giving the right to establish a colony.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Charter
The movement of tens of thousands of English settlers to New England during the 1630s
Great Migration
America is named after this Italian sailor
Amerigo Vespucci
A settlement that was created by the Spanish church in order to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
Mission
This was a colony ruled by the king’s appointed officials.
Royal Colony
This was the idea that people were accepted regardless of what their religious beliefs were.
Religious Toleration