Ch. 5 Europeans Conquer North America Lesson 1 and 2
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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. |
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Created by:
gcassidy
on 2012-11-06