| Question |
Answer |
| Great Awakening |
A religious movement that became widespread in the American Colonies in the 1730’s and 1740’s. |
| Migration |
The movement of people from one region to another. |
| Columbian Exchange |
The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa. |
| Encomienda System |
A system in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and converting them to Christianity. |
| Indentured Servants |
A colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years. |
| Slave Codes |
Laws passed in the colonies to control slaves. |
| English Bill of Rights |
A shift of political power from the British Monarchy to Parliament. |
| Mercenaries |
Hired Foreigners needed to serve in the Army. |
| Quakers |
A Society founded by members who sought that salvation was available to all people. |
| Patriots |
American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War. |
| Bartolome de las Casas |
A Spanish ruler who was an allie with the Colonists. |
| Plantations |
A large farm that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop for profit. |
| Middle Passage |
A voyage that brought enslaved agricans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies. |
| Loyalists |
Colonists who sided with Britain in the American Revolution. |
| Capital |
Money or Property that is used to earn more money. |
| Jamestown |
The first Colony in America; set up in 1607 along the James River in Virginia. |
| Stamp Act of 1765 |
A law passed by Parliament putting duties on all colonial paper products. |
| Tea Act |
A law passed by Parliament selling low-cost tea to Colonies. |
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