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Thomas Vocabulary 1
vocabulary chapters 2-6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Parliament | British National Legislature |
| Charter | official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony |
| Enlightenment | Age of reason; movement that begun in Europe in the 1700s as people began examining the natural world, society, and government |
| Town Meetings | Political meeting at which people make decisions on the local issues: used primarily in New England |
| Mercantilism | Practice of creating and maintaining wealth by carefully controlling trade |
| Protestant Reformation | Religous movement begun by Martin Luther and others in 1517 to reform the Catholic Church |
| Proclamation of 1763 | British proclamation banning further colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Encomendia System | System in Spanish America that gave settelers the right to tax local Indians or demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and teaching them skills |
| Middle Passage | voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies |
| Conquistadors | Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain |
| Columbian Exchange | transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa |
| House of Burgesses | Colonial Virginia's elected assembly |
| slave codes | laws passed in the colonies to control slaves |
| Duties | Taxes on imported goods |
| Navigation Acts | A series of English laws that required the American colonies to trade primarily with England set duties on some goods |
| Apprentices | People who learn skilled trades from a master craftperson |
| Triangular Trade | Trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American Colonies, the West Indies and West Africa |
| Sons of Liberty | Secret societies formed in the mid-1700s by colonists to protest new taxes and to frighten tax collectors |
| Immigrants | People who moved to another country after leaving their homeland |
| Boycott | To refuse to buy certain goods: method often used in protest movements |
| Committies of Correspondence | Committies created in Massachusetts in the 1760's to help towns and colonies share information about resisting the new British Laws |
| Plantations | Large farms that usually specialize in growing one kind of crop |
| Mayflower Compact | Document written by Pilgrims that established general guidelines for self government |
| Northwest Passage | A nonexistant path through North America that early explorers searched for, which would allow ships to sail from the atlantic to the pacific ocean |
| Indentured Servants | Colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years |
| Mission | Settlements established by priest in Spanish America to covert local Indians to Catholicism |
| Tea Act | Law passed by parliament allowing the British East Indian company to sell its low-cost tea directly to colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants |
| Stamp Act | Law passed by parliament to raise tax money by requiring colonist to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items |
| Intolerable Acts | A set of laws passed by Parliament to punishthe colonist for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control of the colonies |
| Bicameral Legislature | A lawmaking body made up of two houses |
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