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History-Bennet ch 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| colony | a group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by their country |
| turning point | point in history that marks a decisive change |
| circumnavigate | sail completely around |
| Colombian Exchange | the movement that brought the western and eastern hemispheres together |
| conquistadors | Spanish conquerors that were given permission to settle in the Americas. |
| pueblos | towns that were the center of farming and trade |
| presidios | forts that soldiers lived in |
| peninsulares | TOP OF SOCIAL SCALE - born in Spain, owned more land and held better jobs |
| creoles | 2ND HIGHEST IN SOCIAL SCALE - born in America with Spanish parents and owned farms and ranches |
| mestizos | 2ND LOWEST IN SOCIAL SCALE - Native American/Spanish parents and worked on farms |
| SOCIAL SCALE IN NEW SPAIN | 1. Peninsulares 2. Creoles 3. Mestizos 4. Indians |
| northwest passage | imaginary waterway through North America |
| John Cabot | went on 79-day Atlantic sail and found "new-found island where fish are plentiful" (Newfoundland, CANADA) |
| Giovanni da Verrazano | sailed to find the northwest passage |
| Jacques Cartier | sailed more than halfway up the St. Lawrence river |
| Protestant Reformation | the movement that divided Europe because of faith |
| protestants | people who opposed the church (named by Martin Luther) |
| coureurs de bois | french colonists who lives and worked in the woods ("runners of the woods") |
| missionary | someone who goes to a different land to win converts for a religions |
| alliance | an agreement between nations to aid and protect each other |
| charter | a legal document giving rights to a person or company |
| burgesses | elected representatives to the govt. |
| House of Burgesses | together they made laws for Jamestown - first form of representative govt. in North America |
| representative government | voters elect representatives to make laws for them |
| Magna Carta | Great Charter - document stating the king must not raise taxes unless consulting with a Great Council |
| Parliament | Great Council made of nobles or church leaders, divided into House of Lords and House of Commons |
| Pigrims | people who travel and colonize in search of religious freedom |
| established church | chosen religion for a whole place to follow, made by rulers |
| Persecution | mistreatment or punishment for religious beliefs |
| Mayflower Compact | goal was to establish laws that did not reflect religion for the general good of the colony, a continued example of representative govt. |
| precedent | an example for others to follow in the future |
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