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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Spanish Conquistador and sailed from Cuba to Mexico with 500 soldiers | Hernando Cortes |
| He landed on the coast of Peru and captured the Inca ruler and then executed him | Francisco Pizarro |
| Conquistadors | Spanish soldier-adventurer |
| circumnavigate | to travel around the entire Earth |
| Queen Elizabeth | The ruler of England during the age of exploration |
| mercantilism | economic policy that held a nation by exporting more goods to foreign lands than it imported for them |
| John Smith | A man sent out from London to lead a colony |
| Representative Government | A government that voters elect people to make laws for them |
| James Oglethorpe | He wanted a colony for English debtors to be safe |
| Plantation | A large farm |
| Royal Colony | A colony directly under the English crown |
| proprietary colony | An English colony ruled by the king that rents land to other proprietors |
| George Washington | first president of the United States |
| Militia | a force made up of civilians and trained as soldiers but no part of the army |
| Alliance | an agreement between nations or groups to help each other against other nations or groups |
| Boycott | an organized campaign to refuse to buy certain products |
| monopoly | a total control of a certain market |
| minutemen | citizen soldiers that could be ready to fight at a minutes notice |
| Thomas Jefferson | the 3rd president |
| Blockade | To block off a harbor or a big object |