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Landry 4-5 Unit 1
Unit 1 Flash Cards (20)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| charter | An official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony |
| migration | The movement of people from one region to another |
| Triangular Trade | Trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, and Africa |
| Colombian 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 |
| 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 |
| indentured servants | A colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years |
| mercenaries | Foreign soldiers who fight out of loyalty, but for pay |
| Quakers | Society of Friends, Protestant sect founded in 1640s in England whose members believed that salvation was available to all people |
| Patriots | American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War |
| Bartolome de la Casas | The governor of Spanish Louisiana, became a key ally to the Patriots |
| plantations | A large farm that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop for profit |
| Middle Passage | A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies |
| Loyalists | Colonists who sited with Britain in the American Revolution |
| capital | Money or property that is used to earn more money |
| Jamestown | The first colony in America in 1607 |
| Stamp Act of 1765 | A law passed by Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp when ever they bought paper items such as newspaper, licenses, and legal documents |
| Tea Act | A law passed by Parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low cost tea directly to the colonists, undermining colonial tea merchants, led to the Boston Tea Party |
| Great Awakening | A religious movement that became widespread in American colonies in the 1730-40 |
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