Spanish Colonization
A Spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain
Conquistador
A waterway through or around North America
Northwest Passage
An English settler who sought religious freedom in the Americas in the 1600s
Pilgrim
The highest Social Class in the English colonies
Gentry
Export
A town in the Spanish Colonies
Pueblo
An agreement made between nations to aid and protect one another
alliance
A 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth colony
Mayflower Compact
Private schools made for young women
Dame Schools
A series of English laws beginning in the 1650's that regulated trade between England and its colonies
Navigation Acts
A religious settlement run by Catholic priests; aimed to spread religion
Mission
A legal document giving certain rights to a person or a company
charter
The willingness to let others practice their own beliefs
Religious Tolerance
Fun Fact/ Daily Double: A English colonist and Scientist who famously flew a kite to show that lightening is electricity -
Benjamin Franklin
A nickname for a New England merchant
Yankee
A person born in Spain's American colonies to Spanish parents
Creole
A 1676 revolt of Virginia colonists against the colony's government, for not seizing Native American land
Bacon's rebellion
A group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Puritan
A religious movement in the English colonies in the mid-1700s
Great Awakening
The colonial trade route between New England, Africa, and the West Indies
Triangular trade
The name of the Spanish empire that fell to Cortez and his conquistadors
Aztec
A political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them
Representative government
A 1649 Maryland law the provided religious freedom for all Christians
Act of Toleration
The movement in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason
Enlightenment
A 1689 document that guaranteed the rights of English citizens
English Bill of Rights