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Ch. 5 Lesson 1/2 Voc
Ch. 5 Europeans Conquer North America Lesson 1 and 2
Question | Answer |
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Indians | Columbus's mistaken term for Native Americans he found in the Caribbean. He thought he had landed in the Asian East Indies. |
Slavery | Owning people as property. |
Conquistadors | Those who conquer. It was also a term used for the Spanish leaders who conquered the Americas. |
Hispaniola | one of the four islands of the Greater Antilles in the caribbean Sea. Site of the first permanent colony in the Americas. (Present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic.) |
Convert | To change someone's religious or political beliefs. |
plantation | Large farming estate where mainly on crop is grown. |
missionaries | People sent to another place to spread a religion. |
Northwest Passage | Rumored link between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It was never found. |
Spanish Armada | Fleet of war ships that invaded England and was defeated, beginning Great Britain's domination of the Atlantic Ocean and eventually North America. |