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Mid-term Finals
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| He went to Mexico and captured and destroyed Tenochtitlan. He also built Mexico City in its place. | Hernando Cortez |
| He sailed to Peru. He defeated the Incas and captured Atahualpa. | Francisco Pizarro |
| Spanish soldier-adventurers | Conquistadors |
| to travel completely around something | Circumnavigate |
| a ruler of England who ruled during the Spanish Armada and defeated them | Queen Elizabeth |
| ________ was the system that held that colonies existed to make the home country wealthy and powerful. | Mercantilism |
| Jamestown's first leader | John Smith |
| a political system in which voters elect others to make laws | Representative Government |
| he wanted a colony wit hprotection for English debtors | James Oglethorpe |
| a large estate farmed by many workers | Plantation |
| a colony under control of the English crown | Royal Colony |
| land that the king gave to a proprietor and later turned into a colony | Proprietary Colony |
| the commander of the Continental army | George Washington |
| an organized body of armed volunteers | Militia |
| an agreement between countries to aid and support one another | Alliance |
| An organized campaign to refuse to buy or use certain goods and services | Boycott |
| a company that controls all or nearly all business in a particular industry | Monopoly |
| soldiers that can be ready at a few minutes notice | Minutemen |
| author of the Declaration of Independence; later to become the third president | Thomas Jefferson |
| the shutting off of ports or roadways to block people or supplies from coming or going into that area | Blockade |