Spanish Colonization
French/Dutch/English Colonies
New England/Middle/Southern Colonies
Colonial Society
Trade and Government
100

A Spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain 

Conquistador

100

A waterway through or around North America

Northwest Passage 

100

An English settler who sought religious freedom in the Americas in the 1600s 

Pilgrim 

100

The highest Social Class in the English colonies 

Gentry 

100
A trade product sent to markets outside of a country 

Export 

200

A town in the Spanish Colonies

Pueblo 

200

An agreement made between nations to aid and protect one another 

alliance 

200

A 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth colony 

Mayflower Compact 

200

Private schools made for young women 

Dame Schools 

200

A series of English laws beginning in the 1650's that regulated trade between England and its colonies

Navigation Acts 

300

A religious settlement run by Catholic priests; aimed to spread religion 

Mission 

300

A legal document giving certain rights to a person or a company 

charter 

300

The willingness to let others practice their own beliefs 

Religious Tolerance 

300

Fun Fact/ Daily Double: A English colonist and Scientist who famously flew a kite to show that lightening is electricity - 

Benjamin Franklin 

300

A nickname for a New England merchant 

Yankee 

400

A person born in Spain's American colonies to Spanish parents 

Creole 

400

A 1676 revolt of Virginia colonists against the colony's government, for not seizing Native American land 

Bacon's rebellion 

400

A group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony 

Puritan 

400

A religious movement in the English colonies in the mid-1700s

Great Awakening 

400

The colonial trade route between New England, Africa, and the West Indies 

Triangular trade 

500

The name of the Spanish empire that fell to Cortez and his conquistadors 

Aztec 

500

A political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them 

Representative government 

500

A 1649 Maryland law the provided religious freedom for all Christians 

Act of Toleration 

500

The movement in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason  

Enlightenment 

500

A 1689 document that guaranteed the rights of English citizens 

English Bill of Rights 

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