Vocabulary
Age of Exploration
English Colonial People
The English Colonies
Trade
100
Spanish explorers in the new world
What are conquistadors
100
The year that Columbus found America
What is 1492?
100
The man who took over Jamestown and saved it
Who is John Smith?
100
The term for the upper colonial social class
What is gentry?
100
A Native American term for trade
What is barter?
200
People mixed with Spanish and Native American descent
What is mestizo?
200
the "rebirth" of Greek and Roman culture
What is the Renaissance?
200
He founded Maryland as a refuge for Catholics, not his nickname
Who is Calvert?
200
A type of colony controlled by the king
What is a royal colony?
200
a method of trade particularly used in the New England Colonies
What is the triangle trade?
300
English "pirates" that raided Spanish ships
What are Sea Dogs?
300
The first European to circumnavigate the globe
Who is Magellan?
300
He led a farmers rebellion in Virginia
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
300
The first English settlement in North America
What is Roanoke?
300
the term that refers to the journey of slaves from West Africa to the New World
What is the Middle Passage?
400
Spanish forts in the Southwest
What is presidio?
400
He set up a school for Navigators and Prince of Portugal, and that was his nickname too
Who is Henry the Navigator?
400
He introduced tobacco to Virginia
Who is John Rolfe?
400
Baptist and Methodist religions come about becasue of this
What is the Great Awakening?
400
a favorable balance of trade
What is it when a country exports more than it imports?
500
A person that signed a seven year caontract to pay for passage to the New World?
What is an indentured servant?
500
He invented the printing press
Who is Guttenberg?
500
He led a slave rebellion and tried to escape to Florida
Who is Stono?
500
The foreign policy used by the British in the early 1700s with her colonies
What is salutary neglect?
500
Economic concept popular in the 1700s in Europe where countries try to obtain as much gold and silver as possible
What is merchantilism?
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