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Europe & Exploration
Factors that led to the exploration of the New World
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The great period of rebirth in art, literature, and learning in the 14th-16th centuries, which marked the transition into the modern periods of European history. | Renaissance |
| A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches. | Protestant Reformation |
| The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. | Columbian Exchange |
| Process whereby the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own government in charge and either moving its own people into the place or bringing in indentured outsiders to gain control of the people and the land. | Colonization |
| One of the Spanish soldiers who sought riches and power for themselves, and wealth and glory for Spain, in the conquest of the Americas. | Conquistador |
| Someone who attempts to convert others to a particular religion. | Missionary |
| Spanish Explorer who discovered and named Florida while searching for the "Fountain of Youth". | Juan Ponce de Leon |
| Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain. | Hernan Cortes |
| English explorer who helped found and govern the colony of Jamestown. His leadership and strict discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter. | John Smith |
| First elected legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619, representative colony set up by England to make laws and levy taxes but England could veto its legislative acts. | House of Burgesses |
| Laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America. | Indentured Servant |
| A rebellion lead by Nathaniel Bacon with country farmers to attack Native Americans in an attempt to gain more land. | Bacon's Rebellion |
| The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony. | Mayflower Compact |
| A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay. | Puritans |
| Conflict between English settlers and Pequot Indians over control of land and trade in eastern Connecticut. | Pequot War |
| Many Puritans migrated from England to North America during the 1620s to the 1640s due to belief that the Church of England was beyond reform. | Great Migration |
| A religious group that believe all people are equal and are basically good. They feel that violence is always wrong, and refused to carry guns or fight. | Quaker |
| Act that was passed allowing freedom of worship for all Christians in Maryland, kept peace between Catholics and Protestants. | Toleration Act |
| A colony under direct control of the king. | Royal Colony |
| A colony owned and ruled by one person who was chosen by a king or queen. | Proprietary Colony |
| This document, signed by King John of Endland in 1215, declaring that the king and government were bound by the same laws as other citizens of England. It contained the antecedents of the ideas of due process of law. | Magna Carta |
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