Vocabulary
An agreement between nations to aid and protect one another
Alliance
The Puritan belief that all Christians have a duty to study the Bible led directly to Many New Englanders doing what
Teaching their children to read
The Separatists established a colony because they wanted to…
Worship freely
A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company
Charter
A representative to the colonial Virginia government
Burgess
American Indians were replaced as slaves by another group of people because Europeans believed this group was less likely to die due to illness..
Africans
this showed that the Pilgrims were aware of the need to make their own government
Mayflower Compact
A Spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain
Conquistador
A person born in Spain's American colonies to Spanish parents
Creole
Because he believed there should be stricter limits on government, this person Settled the town of Hartford and established a representative government
Thomas Hooker
The first French colonists in North America were mainly interested in 3 things.. name them
Fishing, trapping, and trading
In Spain's American colonies, a person of mixed Spanish and Indian background
Mestizo
a 1620 agreement for ruling Plymouth colony
Mayflower Compact
This colony set an important precedent because it was founded solely to worship freely
Plymouth
What were the three main reasons why Spanish explorers established colonies in the Americas
Wealth, to spread Christianity, and adventure
An English settler who sought religious freedom in the Americas in the 1600s
Pilgrim
A group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Puritan
The cities were located on the coast and had plenty of wood was one main reason for which colonies to become major ship building centers
New England
What motivated explorers to look for new trade routes?
stories of great wealth and new trade goods
A person from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony
Peninsular